The Stand-In Wife and His Only Obsession novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: The Gala
I called her from the car.
It rang out.
I called again from the Turnpike, and from the tunnel, and from our lobby.
She didn't pick up once.
Lucas read the text over my shoulder in the elevator.
"She'll get herself killed," he said.
"She's trying to fix it. She told him about the recording. She thinks this makes it even."
"It won't."
"I know that. She doesn't."
【Kitty going rogue. Of COURSE she is. She's the female lead. She has to do something dramatic.】
【Babe, this isn't her book anymore.】
All week I tried.
I went to East Sixty-Third on Monday and my mother told me through the door that Kitty was resting.
I went on Wednesday and my father said she'd gone to a friend's.
Kitty didn't have friends who'd hide her.
She had a fiancé.
On Thursday Marge called me into her office and shut the door.
"The Jersey lab has the chair and the can," she said. "The county has the deed. The DA wants the twin typewriter before she'll sign anything. We need two more weeks."
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