The Wife They Burned novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: Testimony
Marshall's mother didn't answer her.
She picked her handbag up off the front pew and walked out through the little vestry door behind the altar.
She left Fallon on the pew in her lace collar, staring at the door that had just shut.
Nobody went to her.
Marshall didn't lift his head out of his hands.
A reporter in a red coat stepped into the aisle with her microphone out.
"Mrs. Kendrick, what happened at Lantern House on Friday night?"
"Somebody poured gas through the laundry window while twenty-five people slept," I said. "Everybody got out. Ask the family who wrote my obituary where they were."
I walked back down the aisle.
At the door, Joy made Abel stop her chair.
She twisted round and looked at Fallon, small and alone at the front of the chapel.
"A sister," Joy said, loud enough for the back row. "Honestly."
Abel pushed her out into the cold before she could add anything.
The detective released my name at nine the next morning.
By ten the story had turned over.
KENDRICKS MOURNED WIFE WHO WASN'T DEAD.
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