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CHAPTER 85: OUT ON BAIL
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My Ex's Uncle Is My Husband Now CHAPTER 87: WHO TOLD HER?
I read the message three times.*Bring your mother-in-law's sketchbooks. I would love to see them.*My hands had gone cold. I turned the phone around and showed it to Damien. He read it once. His face did not change. But I saw his eyes go dark and still, the way a lake goes still before a storm."Ruiz," he said quietly. "Look at this."The detective took the phone. He read it. He let out a long, tired breath through his mustache."I will send this to the New York police," he said. "Her plane is going there. We will know where it lands in an hour." He gave the phone back to me. "Mrs. Ashford. Who knows about these sketchbooks?"I opened my mouth to answer. Then I stopped. I counted in my head.Damien. Catherine. Grant. Me.I counted again."Five," I said slowly. "There are five. I almost forgot one.""Who?""Mrs. Bell," I said.Damien turned his head and looked at me."She was in the house when Grant carried the trunk in," I said. "She brought tea. She saw them. She held one of them. S
My Ex's Uncle Is My Husband Now CHAPTER 86: CALDER STREET
"Sabrina? Sabrina!"Nothing. The phone was silent in my hand. I pressed call again. It rang once and went straight to her voice message. *Hi! It's Sabrina. Leave a message, darling!*I turned around. My whole body was shaking."Calder Street," I said. "Number nine. The top floor. Two men are going up the stairs. She is hiding in the bathroom."Ruiz did not ask a single question. He grabbed his radio off his belt."Dispatch, this is Ruiz. I need every car near Calder Street. Number nine. Top floor apartment. Two men going up the stairs, a woman hiding inside. Possible danger. Go now. Lights and sirens."A voice crackled back. "Copy, Ruiz. Car twelve is four minutes away.""Tell them three," said Ruiz. Then he looked at us. "Calder Street is fifteen minutes from here. I am going.""So are we," said Damien.Ruiz looked at me. At my face. At my hand on my stomach."Mrs. Ashford," he said. "With respect. You should go home.""No.""Lila," said Damien. "Please.""She called me," I said. "No
My Ex's Uncle Is My Husband Now CHAPTER 85: OUT ON BAIL
Nobody moved.The bright white headlights of the silver car were shining straight at us. I had to squint to see. Margot stood beside the open driver's door in her long black coat, with her hands in her pockets, as calm as a woman waiting for a bus.And behind her stood Garrison.He looked exactly the same. The neat gray hair. The gray suit. The expensive gold watch shining on his wrist. He was smiling that thin, polite smile I remembered from my first day at Aster, when he stood up and buttoned his jacket and walked out with fourteen people behind him.But he was supposed to be in jail."How?" I whispered."He made bail this afternoon," said Ruiz quietly, beside me. His voice had gone flat and hard. "I got the message an hour ago. I did not think he would be stupid enough to come anywhere near you.""Stupid is not a word I like, Detective," said Garrison pleasantly. He walked forward a few steps, into the light. "I prefer the word *concerned.* My wife told me that some of our property
My Ex's Uncle Is My Husband Now CHAPTER 84: UNIT FOURTEEN
For a moment, nobody in the car said a word.I stared at the phone in Damien's hand. Detective Ruiz's deep voice was still coming out of it. *For Lila. Storage unit 14. Harbor Road. Go before Friday.*"Read it again," said Damien."For Lila," said Ruiz slowly. "Storage unit fourteen. Harbor Road. Go before Friday." He paused. "The handwriting is very neat. A woman's, I would say. Does it mean anything to you?"I looked down at my lap. At the blue scarf, folded so carefully."Fourteen," I whispered.Damien turned to look at me."Mia's birthday," I said. "The fourteenth of April. Sabrina knew. Everybody knew after the board meeting. It was in all the papers." I swallowed. "She did not warn Margot. She moved the boxes herself.""Or it is another trap," said Damien quietly.I did not answer. I did not know. My head was spinning."Detective," said Damien into the phone. "Bring the key down. Please. We are outside in a black car.""On my way."Ruiz came out of the tower five minutes later.
My Ex's Uncle Is My Husband Now CHAPTER 83: THE BLUE SCARF
I did not breathe.I stood between two tall bookshelves in the dim back corner of the shop, with my hand pressed flat against my mouth. My heart was pounding so loud I was sure she could hear it.Sabrina turned slowly, still holding the phone to her ear. Her eyes moved over the little sofa. The table. The lamp.Then they stopped on my blue scarf.She went very still.I took one tiny step back, deeper into the shadow between the shelves. A book was sticking out on my left. My elbow touched it. It moved half an inch. It did not fall. I closed my eyes and prayed it would not fall."Ms. Delane," said Sabrina into the phone. Her voice had changed. It was slower now. Careful. "Can I call you back? One minute."She did not wait for an answer. She put the phone down on the table. Then she bent and picked up my scarf.She held it in both hands. She looked at it for a long time. Then she lifted her head and looked down the long, dark aisle of books. Right toward where I was standing."Lila?" sh
My Ex's Uncle Is My Husband Now CHAPTER 82: THE BOOKSHOP
"Grant!"I was already running before I knew it. Out of Mia's Window. Down the hall. My phone was in one hand and my coat was in the other. Damien was right behind me."What is it?" he said. "Lila, what did you see?"I pushed the phone into his hand without stopping. He looked at the photo. I heard him suck in a breath."Sabrina," he said."She saw her. She saw Nora. And Nora is not answering."Grant was already at the front door with the car keys. He did not ask a single question. He only looked at my face and opened the door.Catherine came to the top of the stairs in her blanket. "What has happened?""One of our girls is in trouble," said Damien. "Stay here, Mom. Please. Mrs. Bell, stay with her."Mrs. Bell appeared from the kitchen with a wooden spoon in her hand and a fierce look on her face. "Go," she said. "Bring that child home."Delane Tower was twenty minutes away. Grant did it in twelve. I sat in the back with my phone in my lap, calling Nora again and again. It rang. And r
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