Jilted at the Altar, I Married His Billionaire Uncle novel · Chapter 23 of 32

Chapter 23: 11:52

Kaylee looked over my shoulder at the screen.

She made a small sound.

"That's him," she said. "That's his face when he's about to be nice to you."

I was looking at his hand.

The picture was blurred at the edges because Elise was stepping back.

I sent the photo to my own phone.

Then to Anson's.

Then I called him, standing in the crib aisle, because I'd promised. Same day. Every time.

He picked up on the first ring.

"Are you all right?"

"I'm fine. Check your phone."

I heard him take it from his ear.

Then nothing.

For a long time, nothing.

"Anson?"

"I taught him to read a drawing," he said, from somewhere far away.

"He was twelve. His father had just died. I spread plans on my kitchen table and showed him where the steel went."

Kaylee had her sunglasses back on.

"I can't," she said, before I asked. "Not today."

"Then not today."

She walked out past the strollers, small and fast, with one hand under her bump.

An hour later the detective met us in a gray room with a table bolted to the floor.

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