Summary

Chapter 21 begins as Nisha notices Charlotte wearing her Yves Saint Laurent suit at a restaurant. She breaks down at how unfair her life has become, crying in Aleks’s arms. Jasmine also hugs and reassures her, as Nisha realizes that she is letting them comfort her.

Nisha calls Carl, but he declines any productive conversation until Nisha gives him the Louboutins.

Nisha and Jasmine discuss the fact that Nisha misses her clothes more than Carl as Nisha admits that “they represent something to me. They’re the version of me I fought for” (236). She confides in Jasmine that she grew up poor and neglected, often stealing clothes. She moved to New York as soon as she could and transformed herself into Nisha after she married Carl. He forced her to abandon her only true friend, Juliana, because she was poor. After listening to...