Her Husband's Other Life novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: Sabrina's Offer

I got into yesterday's skirt and Nate's grey flannel shirt, and I was on the porch before he had both boots on.

Sabrina stood by the rail with the lake behind her, in a cream coat and sunglasses.

Her phone was still held up and recording.

"Turn it off," I said.

"Oh, I don't think so. This is the best footage I've had all year." She tilted the screen at me. "You, a married woman, coming out of a bachelor's bedroom at seven in the morning, in his shirt."

"How did you find this place?"

"I had someone follow his truck from the library lot yesterday." She smiled. "You really should check your mirrors, honey."

Nate came out behind me and shut the screen door quietly.

He had buttoned his shirt wrong, and he didn't fix it.

"You're on my property," he said.

"I'm on a porch. It's very pretty." She lowered the phone a few inches, enough for me to see her eyes behind the glasses. "Let me tell you how this goes."

"Please," I said.

"I send this clip to Ross's partners, at the firm, an hour before the dinner. I send it to the library board. I send it to your lawyer's friends at the courthouse."

She tilted her head, watching me.

"Nine weeks pregnant, and a night with the hotel owner. People do arithmetic, Cora. They'll wonder whose baby it is."

The lake lay flat and bright behind her.

I thought of the technician's warm hands and the quick small light on the screen.

"You're threatening to say my baby is his," I said.

"I'm saying I won't have to say anything. The doubt does it for me." She leaned on the rail. "And you'll lose the custody case before you've started it."

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