The Ex-Change novel · Chapter 11 of 24

Chapter 11: What He Knew

The clip ended on a woman's hand sliding into a man's back pocket.

Lowen put the tablet down on the table very gently.

"I'm going to go and be sick somewhere quiet," she said. "The file is on this tablet. I haven't copied it. Do what you want with it."

She went up the steps with one hand on the wall.

Neither of us watched her go.

Down in the cellar, the monitors hummed and the dock glowed on eight screens with nobody on it.

"Callie," Jude said.

"Don't say my name like that."

"Please."

"I'm not done."

I turned around.

Jude stood three feet away with his hands open and empty.

"Last night you stood on a balcony and told someone, 'I haven't told her. I need her on that stage. It was him.'"

"You heard that?"

"I was at the curtain."

He closed his eyes.

"I suspected him the day we met. I wasn't sure until tonight."

"You weren't sure," I said.

"I didn't want to point at a man and be wrong and have you hurt for no reason."

"And if you'd been right?"

"I was going to tell you when I had proof."

"You let me stand in a piazza, Jude." My voice shook, and I let it. "You let two thousand people call me clingy. You kissed my hair. You watched me say my ex-husband's name on camera every day and you thought, that might be the man who took my wife. And you said nothing."

"I wanted to protect you."

"You wanted to protect your own case."

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