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He married me to ruin my husband Chapter 88
Xavier took the stairs because the Dunmore Building elevator hadn't worked in nine years.He climbed four flights from five to noon, a microphone taped under his collar and Ivy's voice still in his head. She hadn't tried to forbid this mission. She had sat across from him at the kitchen island the night before and asked three questions: what he thought Damian wanted, what Xavier was prepared to give up to hear it, and whether he would say the word if it turned. Then she handed him the earpiece with her own hands. If you don't answer me in one minute, Ruiz comes up. The fourth floor was one big room, stripped to bare boards and plaster. Dust hung in the light from the tall windows. A single card table stood in the middle of the floor, with two folding chairs and a tea set laid out on a white cloth.Damian was already seated. He had grown smaller in a few weeks. The grey cardigan hung off his shoulders, and a cane leaned against the table at his knee, and his hands lay folded on the
He married me to ruin my husband Chapter 87
The grand jury voted at nine on Wednesday morning, and Denise called Ivy at ten past with the result."Indicted," she said. "Murder in the first degree for your mother. Conspiracy, kidnapping, extortion, evidence tampering. Eleven counts." She exhaled, and for a moment Ivy heard the brittleness go out of her voice. "I wanted you to hear it from me before the cameras started. It's real, and it's on paper now.""He's sick.”"He's sick, and he's indicted, and he's missing, and I don't know which of those worries me most." The edge came back. "Xavier's already called me about security. I'd do everything he's about to ask you to do."He asked her at breakfast. Ivy listened, her coffee untouched, as Xavier laid it out like a merger, one item at a time. Ruiz's team on the penthouse around the clock. A second team in Richard's house. A driver for Ivy, a driver for Elena, a third man who would trail whichever of them left the building. No walking anywhere alone, no unfamiliar couriers past the
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By nightfall, the story had a name: Damian Cole.Patricia Hale led her seven o'clock broadcast with Richard's voice, the county building steps, and the red camera lights coming on in a row. “My wife was murdered”, he said, and the clip played every hour for two days. By Sunday morning, three other networks had found their own angles. A former hospital administrator in Sarasota who had agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. A forged waiver, photographed beside its genuine counterpart. A seventy-five-thousand-dollar gift to a pathology department, traced to a trust with a lake address.Then Marissa Henderson called Ivy at eight on Sunday morning, her voice brittle with excitement."I've given an interview. You'll want to know before you see it. My mother-in-law's assistant found every one of those notes, thirty years of them, in a file box. I read one on camera." A pause. "I did it in my own name. I'm tired of being a ghost in my own house."Ivy watched the clip standing at the kitchen
He married me to ruin my husband Chapter 85
Richard was waiting at the kitchen table when they came in a little after half past eleven, still in his coat.The kettle on the stove had gone cold. Ivy had called him from the plane. She laid the envelope in front of him and sat down across the table. Xavier stayed by the counter, close enough to hear, far enough to let her do it herself."Read the one in the middle," she said.Richard took out the photocopy and held it at arm's length, the way he had since his eyes started failing. She watched him find the circled number. His lips moved on the words ‘not on digoxin per husband’, and then they stopped."She asked me," he said slowly. "That Friday morning, in the ambulance. No, that's wrong. I wasn't in the ambulance. They'd already..." He pressed the paper flat against the table with both hands. "The doctor asked me in the hallway if she'd ever taken heart medication. I said no. I thought it was a form..""It wasn't a form, Dad.""No." He looked at the number for a long time. "Eigh
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Denise got the letter by noon."It's a proffer agreement, not immunity," she said, holding up two stapled pages in the penthouse kitchen. "The district attorney's office will agree not to use his statement against him, in exchange for full cooperation. He can't be prosecuted for what he tells us as long as he tells us everything.”"And the money?" Ivy asked."I took care of that," Xavier said. He stood at the window, phone in hand. "A courier will meet us at the airport. Two hundred and fifty thousand, in a big case.”"We're flying tonight?""First thing tomorrow. Theo found a flight that leaves before sunrise." He glanced at her. "Whatever Damian knows about your call, he knows it by now. I'd rather land before he decides what to do about it."Ivy looked at the legal pad on the counter. Friday was still underlined there, twice, in her own handwriting. At midnight the offer would expire. She hadn't answered it. She had told herself she wouldn't, not until she'd seen what the other sid
He married me to ruin my husband Chapter 83
The search team reached the lake house at ten past five that evening and found it exactly as Denise had predicted."Empty," she told them the next morning, standing at the kitchen island with a thermos in her hand. "The doors unlocked, nothing taken, nobody in it. On the drying rack in the kitchen, two teacups, washed and upside down. The photograph on the sunroom windowsill is gone. That's the only thing he took."Ivy looked at the legal pad in front of her, where she had written Friday and underlined it twice. It was Wednesday. She didn't mention that her mother had written her last entry on Wednesday."He's gone," Xavier said. "As he said he'd be, if she agreed.""I haven't agreed to anything." Ivy kept her eyes on the pad. "Denise, I need this to be done quietly, and I need you for it. Not the police.""Why not?""Because every time we've gone after something loudly, we've found an empty compound." She turned the pad around. "My mother's death certificate says ‘natural’. There was
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