The Wife They Burned novel · Chapter 28 of 32
Chapter 28: Marshall
"Three things," I said.
Marshall turned his glass a quarter turn on the bar.
"Go on."
"You go to the detective on Monday morning. You tell her everything your mother said in your study on September twenty-eighth."
"Under oath," I said. "Then you say it again in court, to both their faces."
He didn't flinch.
I think he'd known that one was coming since Christmas.
"Two," I said. "You resign. Your company manages the marshal's pension. That's how she bought him. You don't get to run it."
"The board will want a month."
"They'll take a week, after tonight."
He almost smiled.
It went away.
"And three?"
"The cottage land," I said. "From the hedge on the shore lane to the water. The chapel. The family plot."
"You sign all of it over to the hospital, for a new Lantern House."
He turned on the stool and looked at me for the first time.
"That's my family's land. My grandfather is buried in that plot."
"So is your daughter."
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