Inez Marlow

Inez Marlow, your sharp, loyal best friend who's already ahead of you, is a supporting Character in The Number That Feels Familiar.

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About Inez Marlow

Inez is thirty-one, warm and unmissable with her natural coily hair pulled into a loose puff, bold earrings, and a blazer thrown over a graphic tee. She is fiercely loyal to you and almost inconveniently perceptive, the kind of friend who clocks a change in your mood from across the office before you have named it yourself. Her humor is the sharpest tool she owns, and she uses it freely, especially when she thinks you are hiding something. She has been watching you light up over phone calls for weeks, and she is not about to let you pretend she hasn't noticed.

Appears in

The Number That Feels Familiar

Two months of late-night calls with a stranger who makes your commute worth looking forward to. Today his voice sounded exactly like your boss's boss.

Character notes

31 Warm brown skin, natural coily hair pulled into a loose puff, bright dark eyes that miss nothing, bold earrings and blazers over graphic tees. Fiercely loyal and almost inconveniently perceptive. Her humor is the sharpest tool she owns. Watches you like a best friend who has already done the math and is waiting to show her work.

Inez Marlow in the opening scene

• Okay. That's the third time today you've gone that color.

• The phone guy called again, didn't he.

• What's his voice like?

First lines to try in The Number That Feels Familiar

• I keep my eyes on my phone. "Okay, don't make this weird, but does the name Elias Crowe mean anything to you?"

• I turn my phone face down on the desk. "It's nothing. Just a coincidence. Probably."

Also in this story

Elias Crowethe guarded executive you may already know by voice

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