The Beautiful and Damned Book 3 Chapter 3 - No Matter! (Part 1)

In which we find Anthony and Gloria reduced to shabby rooms and smaller hopes, their days thick with drink, arguments, and the slow humiliation of being cut off from former friends and former selves. Pride, bitterness, and desperation circle each other until a single night spills into violence and degradation, leaving dignity badly bruised and illusions stripped bare.