He Killed Me Then Loved Me novel · Chapter 9 of 24

Chapter 9: I Watched It Happen

Phillip stood up so fast the chair went over.

"No," he said.

"Phillip."

"My father didn't do this."

"I didn't say he did."

"You were thinking it. I saw your face." He walked to the window and back. "His assistant is a nervous man who takes forty minutes to order lunch. He couldn't cut a brake line."

"Somebody did."

"Somebody with a reason to want me dead." He turned on me. "Who would want that? Beckett? Beckett cries when he loses at poker. My father? He's the one person on earth who's never once been angry with me."

I said nothing.

"So that leaves one person," Phillip said quietly, "who knew the brakes were cut before I turned the key."

My stomach dropped.

"Today's question," he said. "Who told you?"

"Nobody told me."

"Hallie."

"Nobody."

"You stood behind a planter at seven in the morning and told me, word for word, that my brakes were cut. Nobody saw that car for two hours. You didn't see it." His voice shook. "You were in a bus across town."

"I had a bad feeling."

"A feeling."

"Yes."

"That's your answer? That's the answer you want me to hold? You had a feeling."

"I had a dream," I said. "I dreamed it the night before. A red car and a wall."

He stared at me for a long beat.

"That's a lie," he said.

My throat closed.

"You promised me one true answer a day," he said. "I let you into my life on that, and you gave me a dream."

"Phillip..."

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