Richard POV
The photo came in at 11:48, three minutes after Millie came home and told me about the woman at Mercury.
Vivienne Ashford — 11:48 AM
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The photo was of Millie. From this morning. From Mercury Café. From the booth next to mine. Millie was looking down at her toast with the angle that she holds toast when she is cutting it with a knife to make it easier to butter, and the reflection on the back of her phone was caught in the photo at the corner, and in the corner you could just make out the faintest suggestion of auburn hair, which was mine, which was Vivienne's, which was the only thing about Vivienne I have ever been able to identify at a distance.
The caption read: “Pretty and young. Does Adrianna know? — V”
I had been sitting at the island with a glass of
