Chapter 10: Forty-One Parents

Kendra didn't make it to the table where her dinner was supposed to be.

She walked out of the ballroom with her shoes in one hand, and I went after her because I had nowhere else to go.

In the parking structure, she stopped beside my car and turned around.

Her mascara had run.

"You knew," she said.

"You knew who he was."

"I found out from a seating chart, the same day you did."

"You let her do that to me in front of two hundred people!"

"I didn't let her do anything," I said.

"Your husband walked up and handed you a lease."

"Don't you dare say my husband like that."

She was crying, and she was also furious, and I could see which one she preferred.

"He did all this for her."

"Do you understand that? He's been sneaking around with your wife for two years."

"Leigh told you the dates," I said.

"She told you the truth, and you know it."

I said, "Kendra, he said he's been paying for your studio."

She stopped.

I hadn't known I was going to say it.

I had only heard it in what Ellis said.

Her face changed, and it changed in a way I hadn't seen in three years.

She stopped being soft.

"Yes, he pays for my studio," she said.

"And the car, and the rent on my apartment, and every hotel on every trip you thought you were paying for."

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