After His Mistress Framed Me, My Husband Lost Everything novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: Rule One

Two officers came in, a man and a younger woman, and stood in Joanna's kitchen looking at the cat.

"Who called?" the woman asked.

"I did," Joanna said. "This woman let herself in and she's been threatening us."

"It's all on my stream," Kinsley said, holding up her phone. "Forty-three thousand people just watched her say it."

The officer watched thirty seconds of it with the sound up.

She looked at Joanna.

"Did you give her the key?"

"Yes, but..."

"Then she wasn't breaking in." She turned to Gavin. "Sir, you're free to go. A detective will want to talk to you Monday."

"My lawyer will be there," Gavin said.

He went out past the robes and the phones with his chin up and didn't look at me once.

Wyatt was at the bottom of the stairs.

He had watched the stream from the car, and he had run six flights without waiting for the officers to let him.

I walked past him to the Volvo and got in.

He got in the driver's seat and did not start the engine.

"You knew," I said.

He didn't pretend.

"Since Wednesday night."

"Her name."

"The name on Joanna's phone, in the hidden data of the sofa picture. An analyst opened it for me after the gala."

"Wednesday." I counted it out on the dashboard. "I slept in her guest room Wednesday. And Thursday."

"I know."

"She made me eggs. I put my face in her shoulder."

"Deanna."

"You let me."

"I couldn't prove it," he said. "A phone name can be copied. If I was wrong, I'd have taken your only friend. If I was right, she'd have known we were looking."

"It was mine to decide."

"Yes."

"You decided what I could stand to know."

"Yes," he said. "I was wrong. I told myself Monday, and I was wrong."

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