Chapter 7
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
—Plato
MoxWorld Auditorium
San Francisco, California
11:50 a.m. GMT-8, January 4, 2023
"All you had to do is say you made the call," says the giant owner of the new hit MoxReads program. "I knew you would be tongue-tied, so I expressed what I know you would have wanted to say.
"You should have seen how bent out of shape Peter was coming to the book signing area," her Sasha laments. "I had to give him a pep talk and then seek the source of his distraction: one very strong-minded, stubborn, not-so-humble Kurdish woman."
"How dare you make a fake me?" protests Zara. "You cannot have my body, so you concoct your own."
Her Sasha grins, replying, "And how dare you hurt my boy Peter? How dare you fake your affections for him for yo
