The Lies Behind Her Marriage novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: Bridget's Price
"You're wearing his shirt," Bridget said.
I stood in the doorway of the Toledo dispatch cage at seven in the morning, holding a key on a paper tag.
"It was clean," I said.
"It was on the floor of the closet," Bridget said.
"I can see the tape marks."
"We labeled things."
"I'm sure you labeled him," she said, and the nose ring twitched.
I told her about the key.
She whistled low and slid her chair back from the radio desk.
"Box 118," she said.
"Your dad hid something at a bank, and your husband's been carrying the key around in a box of dead-man's watches."
"He didn't know it was there."
"That's what he says," Bridget said.
"The probate clerk has to witness the opening," I said.
"Her first slot is the twenty-first."
"Then you've got a week to tell me what that face is," Bridget said, "and right now I've got Colm."
"What?"
She pointed at the window.
A black sedan idled by the dock door.
Colm Redfern stood beside it in a camel overcoat, tapping his phone.
He waited.
"He texted me at six," Bridget said.
"'Let's talk about your future.'"
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