The Lies Behind Her Marriage novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: Headline

By eight o'clock Monday morning, every phone in the Whitmer-Ridge High front office was face down.

That was how I knew they had all seen it.

The secretary had a tissue box open on her desk.

She was holding it out to me before I got through the door.

"I'm fine," I said.

"Sweetheart, nobody is fine," she said.

The principal came out of her office in a green wool suit and a pair of reading glasses pushed into her hair.

She was fifty-eight and had run the school for twenty years.

She took my coat off my shoulders.

"I read it three times," she said.

"I want you to know what I think."

"Please don't tell me it's not my fault."

"I wasn't going to," she said.

"I was going to say that your fourth-period class would walk into traffic for you."

"Not one of them has said an unkind word this morning."

"They've been in the hall since seven."

I looked through the glass.

A dozen of them stood outside the office, in hoodies and lanyards, trying to look as if they were standing there for another reason.

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