A Dazzling Career Without Me

At the celebration party for Theo Delgado, my boyfriend of ten years in secret, finally winning Best Actor, someone suggested playing the finger-folding game. His little assistant was the first to look at me, smiling as she spoke. "I've never spent ten years by a man's side, building him up from a nobody into a Best Actor, only to find out in the end that I was the mistress no one was supposed to know about." The room went silent in an instant.