He Was Reborn to Claim Me, But I'm Already Married novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: Three Vans

We found Leighton's car in the parking lot of the Lakeview Inn, one mile down the road.

It had been left crooked across two spaces, with the driver's door still open.

Ethan drove, I rode with my hands knotted in my lap, and neither of us said what we were afraid of.

Then I saw the dining room windows, and the tightness in my chest finally eased.

Jocelyn sat at a table on the glassed-in terrace with a plate of eggs and a pot of coffee.

There was a red lipstick mark on her cup.

Across from her sat the man with the silver mustache and his wife in her pearls.

Both were in the Foundation's trustee blue blazers, with picnic badges on their lapels.

Leighton stood outside the glass with his hand flat on the pane.

He looked like a man at an aquarium.

"Good morning," I said.

He jumped.

"She walked in here at six," he said. "She sat down with them. She's been talking for an hour, and I can't hear a word."

"Neither can I."

"What is she saying?"

"I imagine she's having breakfast," Ethan said.

We went in together.

Jocelyn saw us and lifted her fork in greeting, the way she would have in a gallery.

"Audra, Ethan. You remember these two, from the gala. They were kind enough to be in the room when I said I'd come to the lake." She smiled at the pair. "I wanted to be sure they'd come to our porch at nine. They've promised."

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