CHAPTER 16 A week later, Becks returns from Hong Kong miraculously still engaged. Her shortest on record is a mind-boggling forty-six minutes. Lary fills her in on her diet, and her plans with Pumpkin to spy on Brit, canceled due to a blizzard, which has kept the Trophy Wife at home. And her most delicious tidbit of all, Half-Smile. The two of them are power-walking down Yonge Street on one of those rare Toronto mornings in mid-February when the temperature inexplicably rises to a balmy eight degrees Celsius, and the sun blazes down, melting the snow into little creeklets running beside the sidewalks. You can actually hear birds twittering in the shrubbery, eager for nest building. It seems Becks has had a change of heart regarding exercise since her latest betrothal. “Hel-p!” she had

