The Conditions of Will

The Conditions of Will

Author: Jessa Hastings Listening Length: 13h 21m
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I cant remember the last time I couldnt get a handle on myself and my emotions, but the lid is slipping. Something about the slipping lid feels like its Sam Pennys fault. Like he broke the seal and hes slowly opening me up. London-based Georgia Carter, professional lie detector and body-language savant, has long been e...

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We pull into the valet at the Ritz over on Canal Street in the French Quarter, and it’s just about as gorgeous as you can imagine.

Everything in this town, the Ritz Carlton included, seems to sport a droopy loveliness, like the whole city is a Southern belle fainting in the hot Louisiana sun. The city smells of a time we’d all rather be from, ripe with some sort of old magic, thick with a formidable lust and heavy with a fog of dreams both realized and lived but also lost—and I can see how you might fall in love with a person here, have a secret affair with a woman your family’s never heard of, give her a lake house no one else knew existed.

This is undoubtedly and somewhat unfortunately the most beautiful, romantic hotel I’ve ever been to in my life, and I’m here with the boy of my dreams, and we’re saddled with my buzzkill brothers.

We’re standing in the hotel lobby waiting to be served—we don’t have a reservation, but they were still showing rooms online—and Sam is fucking up so much right now. I feel like he’s smarter than he’s being; we’ve been smarter than he’s being—