Boss, Your Wife's a Whole Detective novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Walk In
Rowan was gone from the east wing before I woke.
The housekeeper met me on the stairs with her hands clasped and told me he had left at six.
"He took a box, madam. And the lawyer. He said not to wake you."
I knew which box.
I was in a cab to Area Central in my cardigan, with my hair half pinned and my glasses in my fist.
The squad room was the same scuffed grey room I had worked in for six years.
I stopped in the door, because the room had stopped too.
In the middle of the floor stood my husband, in a charcoal three-piece, with Frank's ledger in a box in his arms.
Beside him his lawyer was whispering something fast and hopeless.
Across from him stood the state's attorney with the long jaw.
She had driven down from Waukegan with two assistants and a face like a closed door.
Ida Brennan was in the doorway of her office, with her glasses in her hand, not moving.
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