Betrayal Behind the Wheel novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Paid Lover
Nobody looked at Marissa.
Every one of the sixty faces turned to my brother.
Colby stood by the cake table with his glass halfway to his mouth.
"Mari," he said. "Not here."
"Is it true you were paid?"
She came across the grass toward him in her blue dress, one step at a time.
"I asked you on my own porch, and you laughed at me. Say it now."
"You're drunk."
"I've had no wine, Colby. I have not been able to swallow anything for two days."
My mother had reached the bottom of the stage steps.
"Marissa, sit down," she said, in the voice that made grown men reach for their ties.
"No."
It was the first time I had ever heard my wife say that word to my mother.
Selma stopped walking.
"Colby," Marissa said again. "Look at me. Tell me who I am to you."
He looked at the crowd.
I saw him count them, the way he counted a room before a sales pitch.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Betrayal Behind the Wheel are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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