I Married the Don for the Debt, and My Husband Walked In Alive novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: Waiting

Rafe's POV

I told her I wouldn't follow her, and I kept the promise in the only way that left me a way to breathe.

I did not follow her in.

I sat in the lot of a marina diner for four hours with the engine off.

I watched the road to a white building whose corner I could just see.

The coffee was bad.

I drank three cups of it and ordered nothing else.

A waitress came out to the car once and asked whether I was waiting for someone.

"My wife," I said.

I had not said it that way before, to a stranger, with no one to hear it but a girl with a coffeepot.

She went back inside, and I sat with the word.

The night before, after Camille went up to the east bedroom, I had gone down to the music room.

I had opened the safe behind the piano.

I had taken out the pistol and set it on the lid of the upright, on the wood where she had lain.

I sat and looked at it until the shutters went grey.

It was a short .38 I had meant for Julien Beaumont since the night he walked into the reception.

I knew exactly how it would go.

A drive to the coast, a door, a few minutes, and a boat that went out into the Sound and came back empty.

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