The Queen Reborn: Claiming What's Mine novel · Chapter 28 of 32

Chapter 28: What I Remember

Four hundred heads turned from Odessa to Cora.

Ronan's hand closed on the back of a chair.

Cora felt Pearl's arm tighten on hers, and she patted it twice.

"Go ahead," Cora said. "Tell them."

Odessa folded her hands on the podium, and her voice went low and sweet again.

"Miss Delaney told Mr. Keane a very strange story. That she had lived this day before. That she died on the river road, on a wet night, in a gray car, two years from now."

A rustle went through the room.

Somebody at table six laughed, and stopped.

"She is a gifted young woman," Odessa said, "and she has been under terrible strain. I remember it too, you see. Because she told me."

"I never told you," Cora said.

"You told Mr. Keane. In a car, in the rain. And the people who look after this family heard every word."

So there it was.

Cora let herself smile, for the first time since she had walked in.

"Say that again," she said. "Slowly. For the room."

"I beg your pardon?"

"You say you remember a crash. A crash that hasn't happened. You've told four hundred people you know which bend, which car and which night."

Odessa's eyes narrowed a fraction.

"I know what you said."

"What I said was a private thing in a private car." Cora walked two steps into the open floor between the tables. "So I'll ask the question every person in this room is asking. Who listened? Whose people sat outside Ronan's car, and what did they use?"

The bald CTO took off his glasses and set them on the cloth.

"There was a listening device in a casserole dish," Cora said. "A woman named Kendra brought it to my grandmother's door. A mechanic is going to testify to that, and so is a fire captain, and so is your son."

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