The Wife He Never Knew I Became novel · Chapter 30 of 32
Chapter 30: Last Ask
Holden closed the back of the car very quietly, with my mother's box inside.
He looked at Daniel through the bars of the gate, and then at me.
"Your call," he said.
"What's the one thing?" I asked Daniel.
"Not here." He let go of the gate. "Not at her house. Give me an hour at the river. Then I'm gone."
I looked at Holden.
"Go," he said. "I'll meet you there. I have something to pick up."
At noon the river walk east of the plaza was empty, a strip of new grass and benches along the north arm.
The cranes were turning again over the tower. Rutherford's money had started them on the first of June.
Daniel was sitting on the last bench, looking at the water.
He stood up when he saw me.
He had a folded newspaper in his hand, and he held it out.
The society column, from that morning.
Under his own name: "I LIED ABOUT LENA CHEN."
I didn't take it.
"You don't have to read it," he said. "I wanted you to see it exists."
"I see it."
He put it back in his jacket.
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