The Wife He Never Knew I Became novel · Chapter 20 of 32
Chapter 20: Thief
The column went up on Monday at 5 a.m., on the website every society wife in the city read before breakfast.
BILLIONAIRE'S SECRET WIFE ACCUSED OF EMPTYING HER EX'S ACCOUNT.
Under it, in smaller letters: "And why won't Mrs. Rutherford save 300 families?"
I read it in bed with Holden reading it over my shoulder.
They'd cropped a photo of me so my ring hand looked like it was reaching into Holden's jacket.
"A source close to the Zhang family" said I had "always had expensive taste for a boatyard girl."
The last paragraph quoted Daniel by name.
"Ask her what she did with my money," he'd said. "Then ask her why the richest wife in Vancouver lets three hundred families drown."
Holden put the phone face down on the duvet.
"I'm going to sue that columnist into a hole in the ground," he said.
"No, you're not."
"Lena."
"If you sue, it's a rich man's lawyers saving his wife." I got up. "I'm going to work."
At 6:40 Mei called.
She didn't scream this time. That was how I knew.
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