The CEO's Unwanted Wife novel · Chapter 6 of 24

Chapter 6: The Birthday Dinner

In the study, Dalton did not sit down.

He stood at the window with his back to me and asked who had been using his name.

I told him about the garment bags, the thank-you cards, and the reading chair that used to be mine.

I told it plainly, one fact at a time, the way I would read out a lab result.

He listened without turning around.

When I finished he picked up the phone on his desk and said, "Remove everything of Miss Endicott's from my wife's closet tonight."

He hung up.

He did not say her name again, or say what he planned to do about her.

"That's all?" I asked.

"Leave it with me."

I looked at his shoulders for a moment.

Then I said good night, and went up to the guest room, where my coats were.

Thursday arrived.

The Merrow house had a dining room with a table for twenty, but on Agnes's seventy-second birthday it held six.

Agnes sat at the head in dark blue silk with her cane hooked on her chair.

Stanford Merrow sat at the other end, a heavy man with silver hair and eyebrows.

I sat on Agnes's right, in a grey dress and the emerald, with Dalton beside me.

The chair on Dalton's other side was empty.

It had been empty for the first course, and the second.

"Where is Miss Endicott?" Stanford asked the table, in the tone of a man asking about the weather. "I told her seven."

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