Cold Open, A Tale of Modern Hollywood // Chapter 12. The True Confession

Earlier that same Sunday afternoon Esperanza Nuñez was being dropped off at her house by a friend from church. It had been a good Mass. Afterward, after the Communion and the blessing, she had surreptitiously slipped into the poor box an unmarked envelope which contained the money Teddy had given her; having thus unburdened herself, when she arrived home she was much…