He Thought Tuesdays Were Pottery, Now He Begs Me Home novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Leak
Joss's POV
By seven on Sunday morning the scandal had its own hashtag.
Dess read the feed aloud from the fold-out with her braids unpinned and Judge on her shoulder.
"'He wrote his wife was the best person he knew and then passed her the salt.' Forty thousand likes. 'Why didn't he say it to HER.' Sixty thousand. 'This man needs a therapist and a better vocabulary.' Eleven thousand, and I resent that."
"Stop," I said.
"'Quill is the real hero of this thread.'"
I put my face in my hands.
Preston had sent all fourteen months, unredacted, to every reporter in Ohio and a few outside it.
Bennett's worst nights sat on three thousand screens.
So did mine.
Quill's replies were in there too, short and warm and plainly written by a person who knew exactly what she was talking about.
Commenters had noticed.
"Listen to this," Dess said, and her voice changed. "'Whoever Quill is, she sounds like she was in love with him.'"
I raised my head.
"'She isn't his wife. She's the mistress. A woman in a hoodie in an apartment, telling a married man what to say to his wife. Pathetic.' That one has nine thousand."
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