Chapter 10: The Other Woman

"He paid for my flight," the woman repeated. "I mean Tobias did. His assistant sent the ticket."

I took the key card out of her hand.

My own hand was steady, which surprised me.

"Why are you telling me?"

"Because he lied to me too."

She set her small suitcase down.

"I met Dean two months ago at a dealership in Reno."

"I bought a car."

"He said he was a manager, and then he said he was a gambler who'd had a bad run."

"That's the truest thing he's ever said."

"He owes the Wexley casino sixty thousand dollars," she said.

"Maybe more by now."

"The pit boss told him there was a way to clear it."

"All he had to do was come to Vegas on your wedding day."

The lobby around us went on humming.

A suitcase rolled by.

"Come to Vegas on my wedding day and do what?"

"Make a scene," she said.

"Show everybody what kind of woman you are."

"A man in a nice suit told him that."

"He called her a gold digger, and he didn't even know you."

"Who was the man?"

"I never saw his face."

"But you heard his name."

She hesitated.

"Tobias," she said. "Just Tobias."

I felt my pulse in my mouth.

For an instant I wanted to leap over the marble and find the man in the casino.

I made myself breathe.

"Would you say that to a room?"

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