The Wife He Left Behind novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: The Other Address

I stood up, and the chair scraped.

Tobias's glass was still in the air.

Four hundred people were applauding, and they were looking at me.

"Cassia," Stellan said, very quietly. "Do you want me with you?"

"I want you here," I said. "Watching."

I walked down the aisle between the tables in my green dress.

The clapping thinned and stopped.

I climbed the three steps to the stage, and nobody stopped me, because Tobias was standing in front of the whole company with a smile on his face, and he couldn't be seen to.

The CEO put out a hand.

"Mrs. Reiner. What a lovely surprise."

"Thank you, sir. May I have two minutes?"

"I think tonight's meant to be."

"I'm a court reporter," I said. "I put things on the record. It won't take long."

He looked at Tobias.

Tobias said, warmly, "Of course. She's my wife. She's been under some strain."

"That's what I'd like to talk about."

I took the microphone from the stand.

It was warm from the CEO's hand.

"Hello. I'm Cassia Aldous, and I'm Tobias Reiner's wife.

"Some of you came to my cake in November.

"I told you I was expecting. I didn't tell you what else I knew."

Somebody in the crowd coughed.

"Mr. Reiner has told this company he lives in Singapore.

"The company has been paying for a flat he doesn't live in.

"I have the statement here."

I held up the envelope.

"The money goes to an account in Seattle, in two names. His and the woman on his left."

I saw Camille's head come up.

"The badge logs for the Seattle building put him at his desk ten hours a day, every working day, for the same seven months.

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