Secret Strangers in Love novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Recording
Brooke held her phone against the microphone stand and pressed play.
The stairwell came back to me in a tinny, echoing hiss.
"I work here," said my own voice.
Then a cut, and then, "I went through your fiancé's desk, yes."
Another cut.
"I took a picture of the receipt."
The recording stopped.
Brooke had cut out every word she had said herself.
What was left was a woman in a stairwell admitting she had broken into a desk, photographed a document and lied about where she belonged.
"You heard her," Brooke said, with a catch in her voice. "The Gaillards sent her to rob the Ashworths blind."
Nobody clapped, and nobody looked at Brooke.
At Table Four a grocer slowly set down his fork and stared at me.
Two women near the front had their phones raised, filming the stage, and a man by the bar muttered "Gaillards" the way people say the name of a storm.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Secret Strangers in Love are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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