My Duplicated Husband novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Vows
Dina asked to see me on Wednesday morning, and I said yes before Lorne could say no.
"I'll wait in the car," he said. "If you come out in two minutes, I'll know."
The county jail visiting room was cinderblock painted the color of weak tea.
She sat behind the glass in orange, with her hair pulled back in a rubber band.
Without the camel coat and the bob she looked smaller and her mouth was dry and cracked.
She picked up the phone.
I picked up mine.
"You came," Dina said.
"You asked."
"I wanted you to know I'm pleading guilty." She held my eyes. "All of it."
"Friday. It saves the county a trial, and it saves you from sitting on a witness stand while my new lawyer tears you apart."
"That's generous."
"It isn't kindness." She almost smiled. "It's arithmetic. I'm very good at arithmetic."
I waited.
"He made me do it," she said.
"No."
"Lydia..."
"You wrote it in a ledger, Dina.
"Every pill and every night."
"Two columns, in your neat little handwriting."
Her face went still.
"You put it in my wine and watched me drink it."
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