The Stranger I Married novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Leak
"Five years," Elias said.
His voice was very low.
"Don't make that face, darling," said Judith. "Your father's estate lawyer found the Nevada license the week after the funeral.
It was in a folder with your credit card receipts.
A chapel on Virginia Street, seventy-five dollars."
"You never said a word."
"Why would I?"
She walked down two steps, unhurried, and stopped in the middle of the staircase.
"A secret wife is a lever.
I wanted to see what you would do with her.
For five years you did nothing, and I thought, good, the girl is a footnote."
"Then why send the check?" I said.
"Because you turned up at my lobby with a pitch and a pair of shears."
Judith's eyes moved over me, one slow inch at a time.
"I offered you seventy-five thousand dollars to go away quietly.
If you had taken it, Reno would have stayed in a folder forever.
I would have called that a bargain."
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