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program. She tolerates a lot but if she ever found out that I lost all of her future
grandchildren, sheтАЩd go off like a missile.тАЭ
 тАЬIтАЩll do it,тАЭ I tell him.
Because IтАЩm in the moment I hear him say тАЬtrust fund.тАЭ I name a price thatтАЩs
twice my usual fee and he says yes so fast I figure IтАЩd lowballed him.
But thatтАЩs what happens when you move up into the next league. You make a
few mistakes, and you learn.
I wonтАЩt sign any affidavits for accuracy, but hereтАЩs the story he told me, the
way he told it to me, only with the boring stuff edited out.
Said his name was Casto Beckett, and waited for a response like that was
supposed to mean something to me. Okay, so later I looked it up, and heтАЩs one of
the Becketts who own all the rental properties and retail space and the old nostalgia
malls they have out by the exurbs. At the time, I had no idea who he was and just
waved him on impatiently. He wandered a lot, talking about boarding school,
hospitals, his controlling mother. Said he spent a lot of time and money on тАЬbusiness
projectsтАЭтАФby which I gather he meant travel, clubs, and drugsтАФbefore his mother
clamped down on him.
His ex-fianc├йeтАЩs name is Patrina Solove. They met at a club or a party,
somewhere on the scene, he canтАЩt remember. But she was an insecure, evil,
controlling bitch just like his mother, which is why he fell for her so hard according
to his therapist. HeтАЩd been in a self-destructive phase thenтАФhe didnтАЩt do anything
harder than the mocha frappuccino these days, honestтАФand heтАЩd made a lot of bad
decisions. One of them was buying Ms. Solove an engagement ring with a five carat
diamond in it.
Interjection here by me, saying IтАЩd never seen a five carat diamond, and him
impatiently saying it was big enough it could choke a dog, and maybe sheтАЩd choke
on it. But he didnтАЩt care anymore. That wasnтАЩt the point.
Being she was from a family similar to his, only construction and data
infrastructureтАФthis time I nodded like I knew the nameтАФthe two of them got
lawyers involved and drew up prenups before they even told their parents or let
word leak to the gossip-web. She was set on having children, so as a condition of
the engagement she got possession of his testicles.
тАЬIтАЩve been in and out of hospitals,тАЭ he says, stroking the patchy beard on his
chin, тАЬso I figured what the hell, no big deal, and went and had it done.тАЭ
тАЬAnd then the relationship went bad?тАЭ I prompt.
тАЬLike takeout you forget in the backseat on a hot day.тАЭ
More rambling here, but the short version is the womanтАЩs crazy, the kind who
says one thing and does another, wants control of every facet of his life, always has
to know where heтАЩs been, who heтАЩs been with, like she hasnтАЩt got his balls already
and that isnтАЩt enough.
 тАЬSheтАЩs totally freaked,тАЭ he says. тАЬShe had my testicles dolled up like those
easter eggs.тАЭ
тАЬThe plastic kind?тАЭ I ask, thinking about my grandma putting quarters and
hard candy in those pastel eggshells and hiding them in her garden.
тАЬNo, like the kind they have in museums. All gold and shit.тАЭ
тАЬFaberg├й eggs?тАЭ
тАЬYeah, I donтАЩt know, something like that,тАЭ he says, and itтАЩs another one of the
injustices of the world that I know this and he doesnтАЩt. тАЬShe keeps the pair of them
on a shelf in her living room, or did when we were still talking to each other. Last
time we talked, she told me IтАЩd never get them from her, and she had her security