LILY♡ I do not lose. That is the foundational truth I built myself back on after Dexter. Eight months of careful reconstruction, my professional reputation polished back to its best, my social calendar full again, my appearance as controlled and considered as it has always been. I went through the private falling apart that nobody saw and I came out the other side the way I always come out of things. Intact. Focused. Clear on what I want. What I want is Dexter Hart. I have known that since the ending, if it could even be called an ending. That careless cowardly thing he did that I still do not have clean language for. He moved on before he told me he was done. I found out from a mutual friend over drinks on a Wednesday evening and I sat with it for exactly twelve hours before I pu

