Only someone who hadn't known her long would take Taylor at her word, but somehow, it rang true. The notion did sound more like me than like them. The results I'd seen at lunch had indubitably been more a man's handiwork than a woman's. Had that really been my idea? I could believe it of myself. That didn't mean I wanted to, though.

"So you made Isa betray her own integrity, and Candy betray her lover. Is that it?"

"If all that means what I think it means, then yeah. Something like that. Abbie and me, we--"

"Abbie and I. Nominative case, Taylor. We've been over this."

She shook her...