back.
“And this is Emily Bennett. His wife.”
The woman’s smile tightened, but she didn’t look shocked.
Instead, she looked straight at me.
“Hi, Emily. Nice to finally meet you.”
That one word—finally—hurt more than seeing her hand in Daniel’s.
She already knew exactly who I was.
Chapter 2
Daniel visibly relaxed.
Standing upstairs in the darkness later, I realized Margaret had done that deliberately.
She wanted her son comfortable enough to believe she was still protecting him, because frightened liars hide things while comfortable liars grow careless.
I returned
