uences of my call to Robert

nd notice of lawsuit just as he was stepping

who described the scene

, torn the papers in half, a

er, his pho

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Ava, you have no idea t

ar, parked across the

hou

tance, the chan

now marred by cheap, fake ston

a monst

vid, is what you' ve done

home!" he

rsue you into oblivion. I' ll prove you' re an unstable, hy

in the air, ug

predi

ther word, my eyes fi

tes later,

steppe

robe and sunglasses,

ay to get the morning paper,

s smile spread

window, leaning down so I

e?" she said, taking a

ittle path

looked

ng, barely

under my wing, someone

little too ambitious, but I had

been a

she gestured back at

ality. It was so... st

eant to hurt, to

her n

ed, my expr

now," she continued, e

nd a nice little condo somew

e quiet but carrying the

es flicking from her face to the

hin layer attached to the real structure. They add weight, but no streng

ile fa

architectural reference, bu

you talk

the ignition, the en

gile things can be," I said

ngs built on a

curb, leaving her standing there in her silk rob

ad no

r of t

s was about lawy

were

s about

s the ar

sterile space I' d rented after clearing out my th

, I unrolled the original

r lines, the plans I knew b

my love poems writt

ntional, every materi

ans, in a detail so minor no building in

fl

gned into the house fr

engineering that

my si

ut to become t