The One & Only: a Novel
“and his wife, Mary Ann, threw me a going-away party, even though I’d been insisting that I wasn’t really “going” anywhere and that everyone would see me just as often. I dreaded being the center of attention, and hoped that once things got under way, it would feel like a generic party with the usual athletic department suspects. But when I pulled up to the Justuses’ house and spotted Ryan’s black Porsche, I knew there would be nothing generic about the evening. Nothing ever was when Ryan was in...volved. I couldn’t help feeling a jolt of annoyance that he was here when I had specifically not mentioned the party to him or told anyone at work we were dating. I decided that Lucy had to have orchestrated the appearance of Walker’s golden child, as low-key was never her default position.
I got out of my car and walked inside the house, finding Ryan in the foyer, handing Mary Ann a bottle of wine as she gushed about how thrilled she was to see him, how wonderfully he had been playing, how proud we all were of him.MoreLess
I got out of my car and walked inside the house, finding Ryan in the foyer, handing Mary Ann a bottle of wine as she gushed about how thrilled she was to see him, how wonderfully he had been playing, how proud we all were of him.MoreLess
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