The Stand-In Wife and His Only Obsession novel · Chapter 21 of 32

Chapter 21: Kitty Asks for Him Back

"Where are you?" I said.

"Home. In the bathroom. I locked it." She hiccuped. "Jules, I'm scared."

"Of Aldous?"

There was a long silence.

"Yes," she whispered.

"Stay there. We're coming."

Lucas was already pulling on his jeans in the dark.

It was two in the morning on New Year's Day.

Park Avenue was still full of people in paper hats, blowing horns at cabs.

My guard followed, half asleep and furious.

The Halsey house was dark except for the kitchen.

Kitty opened the side door before I knocked.

She was in her pink robe with her mascara gone and her phone clutched in both hands.

She saw Lucas behind me and flinched.

Then she stood back and let him in anyway.

【She let him in. KITTY let LUCAS in.】

We sat at the kitchen table.

Lucas stayed by the door, where she could see him and where he was farthest from her.

"Tell me what happened," I said.

"I called him after you left. I was so angry. I told him you'd recorded his lunch and you were trying to turn me against him. I told him you had pictures of some car up on a lift. I didn't even understand them." She pressed her palms against her eyes. "And he didn't get angry. He didn't say I'm sorry, he didn't say you're crazy. He just went quiet. And then he started humming."

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