Chapter Nineteen

Ward calls late to relay Mark’s attorney has requested a 730 evaluation: a comprehensive psychological assessment including MMPI testing, interviews with Margo’s contacts, and home observation with Bodhi. Though Mark’s side wants Margo to pay, they offer to concede full custody with weekly visitation if the results favor her. Weighing cost against trial risk, Margo is elated yet warned about the evaluation’s invasiveness.

Margo meets the chosen evaluator, Dr. Clare Sharp, and takes the MMPI. The questions feel archaic and opaque, prompting Margo to follow Ward’s advice to answer truthfully while worrying how her doxxing, sex work, and beliefs will read. She provides contact materials and schedules a follow-up interview.

The next day, Margo focuses on work, turning Ghost into a mischievous heel centered on food-based pranks and unsettling, hungry imagery. She, Rose, KC, Suzie, and Snoop Dork prep TikToks, including a shaving-cream eating gag with Rigoberto. Margo refines Ghost’s eerie smile and story logic, aiming for viral impact.

Over takeout, Rose asks why Margo kept her pregnancy. Margo describes the bodily costs of childbirth and her support for choice. Rose shares she left physics grad school after being outed for OnlyFans and informally pushed out. The conversation deepens their bond and underscores institutional stigma and the grind of catering to incessant male desire online.

Late that night, JB messages about the blurred line between author and character. After Margo cautions that their correspondence lacks the safe boundaries of a book, JB calls and suggests visiting for a weekend to meet her and Bodhi. Torn but excited, Margo agrees and suggests airports, signaling a tentative step toward an offline relationship.