I Was His Wife, She Was His Everything novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: Gala
"Made it up," Lawton said.
"That's his story tonight." The detective sounded tired. "Without him, I've got a video from a hundred yards and a stack of card swipes. Her lawyer will call it a lookalike with a stolen card."
"We've got the bartender," I said.
"One man from Nassau who sells her rum. Against a widow with amnesia and her mother crying in the front row."
Nobody in the back room said anything.
The nurses had stopped highlighting.
"Do you want to call it off?" the detective asked.
I looked around the card table.
At Sallie with her legal pad.
At Clancy with his receipt.
At the old shrimper in Sallie's reading glasses.
At Lawton, who was looking at me and waiting.
"No," I said. "We go."
Saturday I got dressed in Sallie's office.
The green dress went on over the bump.
Thirty-one weeks.
I couldn't see my own feet, and I didn't need to.
One of the nurses did my hair up off my neck.
The other put mascara on me with her tongue between her teeth.
Sallie came in wearing her good blouse and a string of fake pearls.
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