She Trusted a Fake Lie Detector, So I Left Her the Truth novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: The Truth Gala

The Hollis Hotel ballroom held a thousand chairs, and every one of them was full.

Three cameras stood on rolling stands at the back, with a red light on each.

Joanna walked us in through the front doors in a black dress, with her cheeks still gray from the gas.

"Mr. Sewall is my guest," she told the man at the door. "I withdrew that restraining order this morning, in writing."

The man looked at her face and stepped aside.

Sadie came in on my left with the banker's box in her arms.

The investigator in the gray raincoat walked behind us with his hat in his hand.

He had not slept either.

Dane stood on a raised stage in a white suit, under a banner with his own name on it.

He had a headset microphone and a velvet chair beside him, and behind him a screen.

"Now, who will volunteer?" he asked, smiling. "Who wants the truth tonight?"

A woman in a green dress raised her hand.

"You," Dane said, and pointed. "You told your husband you were in Boston last weekend."

The room gasped.

She laughed, and her face went red.

"You were not in Boston."

"I was visiting my sister."

"She says you were. But her eyes went left."

People clapped.

I stood up at the end of the aisle with my bandaged hands at my sides.

"Dane."

He turned his head.

For a moment his smile was perfectly bright, and then it stayed on his face without anything behind it.

"There's a gentleman in the aisle," Dane told the room warmly. "Flynn Sewall, everybody. You've seen him. He's the one who faked his own son's death."

A few people hissed.

"Read me," I said.

"Gladly," Dane said. "You have lied to your wife for nine years."

"Which part?"

"All of it."

"Let's check," I said. "Sadie."

She put the box on the lip of the stage and took off the lid.

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