How a Five Million Dollar Bet Led to an Unexpected Marriage in Queens

go straight to the nearest emergency room.”

“I will,” I said, folding the paper into my pocket.

The midtown development firm’s lobby was a cavern of grey marble and tinted glass. I had barely stepped through the revolving doors when Eric White rose from a leather bench near the security desk.

He was thirty-nine, wearing an expensive grey suit that looked continue reading …