While I Couldn't Breathe, He Was With Her novel · Chapter 22 of 24

Chapter 22: Nolan's Reckoning

The news vans were back by eight the next morning, and this time they were parked outside the county office.

I stood on the sidewalk across the street, in the same coat, on the same spot.

I could breathe.

Behind me, Calvin leaned against the truck with his arms folded and watched the steps.

"He said he'd come at nine," I said.

"He said it to a lawyer."

"He's never late."

"He is today," Calvin said, and pointed.

A black car stopped at the curb.

Nolan stepped out alone.

He wore the same dark suit he had worn to the gala, and it was creased.

He had not shaved.

He climbed the courthouse steps with a folder under one arm and a lawyer half a pace behind, and the cameras closed around him.

"Mr. Haskins!" A reporter pushed a microphone forward. "Is it true the marriage to Ms. Ostrow was registered under false pretenses?"

"Yes."

The word was so flat that three people stopped talking.

"I filed a petition this morning to void it," he said. "It was obtained by fraud, and I was the one who was deceived. I should have checked. I did not."

"Did you know the brother was alive?"

"No."

"Mr. Haskins, a woman collapsed at the radio station and died at the hospital last week," said a woman near the front, and I recognized her from the sidewalk the day the bottle was thrown. "Did you refuse her a doctor?"

He turned and looked at the cameras.

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