Skipped by the Altar, Taken by His Uncle novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: Neither May Lie
Reuben read it over my shoulder by the light of the phone.
"That's my desk," he said.
"That's your front window. That's the crack in the glass."
"We were at the Elks lodge from six-thirty to nine-thirty."
"And Connie got to the house at nine."
He was quiet.
Then he said, "Blaine had a key when he was twelve. I never changed the lock."
"Change it tomorrow."
"Tonight," he said, and started looking for his pants.
By morning the post had forty thousand views.
By noon the Courier had run it on its website under the headline "Mayor's Marriage a Signed Contract, Document Shows."
They'd spelled my name right. That was new.
Front Street went cold in a day.
At the diner the waitress brought my coffee without looking at me.
At the grocery store a woman I'd written a wedding notice for put her cart between us in the cereal aisle.
"Bought and paid for," she said to her husband, not quietly.
Four hundred people unsubscribed from the newsletter.
One of them wrote back first: "I trusted you."
Reuben's campaign manager came to the house at eight that night in her church coat with a statement already typed.
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