Chapter 16: The Seating Chart

Maddie kept a spreadsheet for other people's weddings and none for the wreckage of her own, which was, she'd told Jonah more than once, the whole joke of her career. She built seating charts for strangers' love stories and had never once gone back and diagrammed the collapse of hers. It was a Tuesday, unglamorous and ordinary, the kind of night that made confessions possible precisely because not...