After I Learned I Was Going to Be His Ex-Wife novel · Chapter 32 of 32
Chapter 32: The Second Box
By March the speakeasy was sold out through August.
You still had to know the knock. Half of Chicago knew it now.
On the second Saturday of the month, we closed to the public for one night only.
Gran was turning eighty-five, and she wanted a murder.
"I want to be the victim," she said, when I asked what kind.
"Gran, Zelda's the victim. Zelda's always the victim."
"Zelda can have the night off. I'd like to die at my own party. At my age, it's the only way to get anyone's attention."
So Zelda coached her for three weeks.
How to clutch the tablecloth. How to look at the chandelier. How to fall into a booth without breaking a hip.
"Slower," Zelda kept saying. "You're dying, not catching a bus."
"I've never been slow in my life."
"Then you'll be magnificent."
[the GRANDMA is the victim]
[I've been waiting all winter for this]
The comments were fewer now. A handful, on a good night.
But they always came back for a show.
Sixty guests in the red booths. The family. The troupe. The people who'd become ours.
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