He Was Reborn to Claim Me, But I'm Already Married novel · Chapter 16 of 24

Chapter 16: The Entire Sentence

We did not speak in the car, because the grandmother was in the back seat humming.

We waited until she had gone up to bed with her cane and her magnifying glass.

Then Jocelyn sat down on the bottom stair in her red dress, kicked off her heels and told us what she had done.

"Leighton has a man in Montreal and a man at South Station," she said. "Maybe a man at the border too. If I slip away by train, he catches me on the platform. If I burn a house, he spends his life in a lake."

"So?" I said.

"So I leave where he can see me, in front of every trustee, at ten past nine on the Fourth, in my own car."

"The old gray hatchback," said Ethan.

"The very one." She gave him a crooked smile. "The witness saw a gray car in the first life. This time I'll make sure everybody sees it, and the house will still be standing when I drive away."

"He'll put his hand on you."

"In front of his mother's guests?" Jocelyn lifted her chin. "Let him. I've got a very good sister who taught me what that looks like."

I wanted to argue.

I wanted to say it was too dangerous, and that it was exactly the kind of plan she would make.

But it was the first plan anyone had made that did not end with her in a box.

"Ethan will be in the driveway," I said.

"I'd like that," said Jocelyn.

"I'll bring the grandmother," Ethan said. "She's never been to a fire that didn't happen."

Jocelyn laughed so hard she put her head down on her knees.

I went upstairs.

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