Forbidden Game: Seducing the Bride at the Altar novel · Chapter 25 of 32
Chapter 25: Open the Door
Nobody touched it.
The little phone sat on the oilcloth next to the old man's cracked gold watch.
"Five years," Jasper said.
His voice was very quiet.
"You had that for five years."
"Yes."
"I stood up in that church alone."
"I know."
"They laughed. You were in the front pew. You laughed with them."
She didn't look away from him.
I'll give her that.
"I didn't play it until the morning after the funeral," she said. "I played it once. Then I put it in a drawer under my scarves."
"Why?"
"Because Corbett was all I had left. And because I told myself it was the wind."
Ida had her hand flat on the table and her mouth shut tight.
"Play it," Jasper said to me.
I opened the phone.
The screen was tiny and green. One saved message, five years old.
9:12 PM.
I pressed it and held it up on speaker.
Wind came first.
A roar, and under it rain hammering on glass.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of Forbidden Game: Seducing the Bride at the Altar are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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