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Everyone Knew but Me
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In the sixth year of our long-distance relationship, I told my boyfriend I was too busy with work to spend his birthday with him. In secret, I boarded a ten-hour flight to Harborwick with the deed to the condo I'd bought. I was going to propose in front of all our friends and surprise him. While I waited for a car, I answered a few work messages and scrolled through social media. The first thing I saw was a post from my best friend. "I'm a godmother! Nine-pound baby girl. I'm so happy." I opened the photo and found my boyfriend, Lucas Wynn, standing beside another woman with a newborn between them. My mind went completely blank. I kept scrolling back through her older posts and found their entire life documented there. Meeting, dating, marriage, pregnancy, birth-six years of it, without a single gap. Several of my closest friends were smiling in their wedding photo. Something cold went through me, because now I understood. All of them had known. Only me. I'd been lied to for six straight years.
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Everyone Knew but Me Chapter 9
I turned and walked out, and somebody came after me. It was Hannah.She ran until she was out of breath and grabbed my sleeve."Iris, I'm sorry. I swear I didn't know Celeste would take it that far. I thought she just wanted to scare you."I stopped and asked her, "Was it you who twisted my wrist that day?"The knife should have gone into Lucas's chest. Instead, somebody had wrenched my arm around at the last possible second and turned the blade back on me.Hannah wrestled all through high school. Fast hands were never a problem for her.I watched the color go out of her face, and I gave her back the exact words she'd given me."Hannah, even though we're close, I can't take your side just because you're my friend. You... helped them do it."Two weeks later the police formally arrested Celeste for reckless homicide and for directing others to destroy evidence.The Ashbury lawyers tried to argue it was a family dispute that got emotional, but the health department's involvement
Everyone Knew but Me Chapter 8
On the screen, a group of people were crowded around my mother's hospital bed, hurling abuse at her without a pause."You're the homewrecker's mother? This is what you get. You deserve the cancer."It got uglier and uglier while my mother curled up under the blanket, so thin she barely looked like a person anymore.She couldn't hold her head up under it. Then she pushed herself up off the bed rail and walked to the window barefoot.They could see exactly what she was about to do, and not one of them backed off. They pushed harder."Go on then. If you've got the nerve, do it."A second later, my mother went out the window.The recording caught a heavy sound from below, and then screaming all down the ward.Somebody panicked and made a call, and it was Hannah's voice that came through the speaker."Calm down. The Ashburys will cover for you."The ballroom went absolutely silent.The color drained out of Celeste's face, and Hannah looked terrified.Somebody gasped. Somebody el
Everyone Knew but Me Chapter 7
The light in Lucas's eyes went out."Iris, don't say that. You're angry."I yanked my hand back. The wound in my chest tore at me, and it was nothing next to the wreckage I was carrying around.First thing the next morning, I checked myself out against medical advice and flew straight to the hospital where my mother had been treated.Walter Boyd, the hospital's records and compliance manager, couldn't keep his face straight when he saw me."Ms. Caldwell, your mother's chart has been sealed. If you want copies, there's a process you'll need to go through.""Fine. I'll go through it."I took out my phone and called the state health department's patient safety office right in front of him."My name is Iris Caldwell. I'm filing a formal complaint against this hospital for destroying patient surveillance records in a case involving a death, and I'm asking your office to step in."Boyd's face went white."Ms. Caldwell, please, there's no need for that. Let's just talk."I ended th
Everyone Knew but Me Chapter 6
Before the detective could answer, Lucas set a hand lightly on my shoulder."Iris, your mother died of her illness. Are you sure you're remembering it right?"He turned to the detective. "I'm sorry. She just lost her mother, and emotionally she may not be..."I slapped him across the face."What are you talking about? You told me you'd help me find out what happened to her."Lucas kept his voice patient, like he was calming down a child."I did look into it. Everything came back the same. She died of the cancer."My stomach dropped. How was that possible?Rita had video-called me. I'd seen my mother on the ground outside that hospital with my own eyes.I went through my messages with my hands shaking.The thread was empty. The video was gone. Even the call log had been wiped off my phone.I looked up at him. He was perfectly composed."Iris, you've been through too much. You need to rest.""You deleted it."He didn't deny it. "I'm sorry about your mother. But people have
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