The Wife He Never Knew I Became novel · Chapter 28 of 32
Chapter 28: The Altar
Nobody in the red room breathed.
Daniel stood at the Zhang table with his napkin in his fist, and he didn't sit down.
"Lena never touched that money," he said. "Not one dollar."
At the Zhang table, Margaret's hand tightened around her glass.
"Daniel," she said. "Sit down."
"I lied about her. To the whole city. With my own name."
He looked across the lazy Susans at me.
"I said her name to that columnist on purpose," he said. "I'm sorry."
"Daniel!"
He took his phone out of his jacket.
He found a number, pressed it, and turned the speaker on, and the ringing went out over twenty tables.
A woman's recorded voice said she was away from her desk.
The beep came.
"This is Daniel Zhang," he said into the phone, loud and slow. "Everything I told you about Lena Chen was a lie."
His hand was shaking. He kept going.
"Vanessa Lin moved the money. Print my name with that too."
He ended the call and put the phone face down on the red cloth.
Then he sat down, because his legs had gone.
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