CHAPTER 4
RED
KIKI: Have you decided yet on Christmas? Need to give the caterer a head count.
I immediately regret pulling my phone out while waiting for that good-looking Reaper who guessed the Deep Cut to come get his beer. And my fingers hover above the touchscreen’s keyboard as I try to decide how to answer the latest text from Kiki.
She's my cousin, but also my best friend—which is why we call each other “best cousins” even now that she’s a highly in-demand songwriter who the rest of the world knows by her married government name, Kyra Fairgood.
We’re so close. How can I look her in the face at Christmas and not tell her what I’ve been up to since Thanksgiving? That I quit my job and my boyfriend. That I’m moving to New York at the beginning of the year to begin a completely new
