My Fiancé Wants Me Back Too Bad The Only Thing Coming Back Is Your Regret novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: Case Closed

Declan's POV

I heard my own handwriting read aloud to three hundred people.

I had never heard it in her voice.

She read the second card, and the third, evenly, without looking up.

Somewhere in the middle of the fourth, a woman at the next table put her hand over her mouth.

"Hold," Linscott said, so low that only I heard.

He had his napkin on his knee and his eyes on the dais.

"Ray."

"Hold, Declan. Let him talk."

"He isn't going to talk."

"He will. Look at his hand."

I looked.

Brendan Corrigan had stepped back from the microphone with his face composed, a fond father waiting out a daughter's speech.

His thumb was working the crystal of his watch.

In the audience, a few people had begun to whisper.

Ray had a recorder in his breast pocket and a rented tuxedo and no authority.

His whole plan depended on Brendan not being able to stop himself once the room turned.

I understood it.

It was the plan I would have written.

"He says one wrong word on that mic," Linscott said, "and I walk up there with two agents and a room full of witnesses. He's talked himself into a cell for forty years."

"And if he doesn't?"

"Then we've got her speech and nothing else."

Hallie lowered the last card.

"My father said he sent me no address," she said into the microphone. "He said an investigator did it. The investigator was found in the harbor at Newburyport."

The room made a sound.

My eyes went to the back wall.

Tommy Dunne was no longer standing at the kitchen doors.

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