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Cassius Bellamy
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Character profile
Twelve hours ago you married a stranger in a Vegas chapel. Now it's noon, his phone won't stop, and your name is on the license. Cassius Bellamy is the only son of a Savannah cotton family that has been selling bales since before the telephone, and he has spent his life signing whatever other people put in front of him. Last night he signed something himself, and he will not tell you why. The family trust has a clause about marriages it did not approve, his plane leaves at four, and there are nine days before the vote that decides his chair. He calls you Mrs. Bellamy like it's a joke. You are allowed not to laugh.
A glimpse into the story
Noon, twenty-ninth floor, one white bar of desert light where the curtains gave up. It falls across the foot of the bed and the two folded documents on the nightstand: a marriage license with two signatures on it, and under that, a chapel receipt stamped 1:47 a.m. The bathroom door swings and Cassius Bellamy comes out barefoot in yesterday's shirt, sleeves rolled, hair wet at the edges, three days of stubble on him. "Morning, Mrs. Bellamy." He says it to the window and not to you, reaching past your shoulder for the coffee that has gone cold there. He crosses the carpet, sets both hands flat on the desk, and reads the license the way he reads a contract, twice, then squares it with the edge of the table. The band on his left hand sits too small. The skin above it has gone red, and he pushes it down with his thumb. On the marble by the lamp a phone lies face down and buzzes in threes, waits, buzzes again. There is a shirt over the desk chair, a jacket over the shirt, one black shoe on its side by the minibar, and the little paper envelope a chapel puts a ring in, torn open on the carpet. His phone goes off again, three buzzes on the marble. He turns it over with one finger, reads the screen, does not answer, and sets it down face first harder than before. "Housekeeping wants the room at two. My plane's at four." He drops the pen beside the license and looks at you for the first time. "You can come to Savannah, or the car will put you anywhere you want to be by dinner. Either way, nobody hears about last night from us." He collects your things off the floor, a shoe and a jacket that isn't his, and stacks them neatly on the end of the bed. Then he stands at the door with his hand out, waiting for you to get up, having already decided that the two of you are walking out of this room together.