No. 15: 🌆💋🐀

Photo by Deborah Anderson

She kisses your boyfriend on his lips in front of you. This happens in her skyscraper office with a Manhattan view. She’s careful to make it quick—a smooch, a smack, a friendly peck she can brush off as maternal habit should she be called out. You see right through it, almost impressed by her calculated motherliness. How many men cultivate fatherly affection toward the girls they abuse?

She’s an agent, a powerful one, at a large and powerful agency. Your boyfriend isn’t directly represented by her, but when in New York, it’s customary to “swing by and say hi.” The agency’s east coast branch feels bigger than its west, but maybe it’s just being dozens of floors up. If she feels invincible here, it’s not hard to guess why.