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The Fall Guy for a Fake Cheating Scandal Chapter 10
Three months later, Cassidy asked to meet me.We met at the café across the street from the Prescolt Hotel.When I arrived, she was already sitting by the window.She'd lost a lot of weight. Her black coat hung off her as if part of her were missing.She'd ordered me a cup of warm water. "I didn't know if you drank coffee."I sat down. "Thanks."We sat in silence for a long time.Right outside the window stood the Prescolt Hotel.In the daytime, it actually looked pretty ordinary. Glass curtain walls, a revolving door, guests coming and going.No one could have guessed that a few months earlier, someone on the sixteenth floor had slowly stopped breathing in there.Cassidy spoke up. "The verdict should be coming out soon."I nodded. "Yeah."She looked out the window, her voice soft. "I read the full case file."I didn't respond.She went on, "Lainey didn't die on the spot."My fingers went still."She still had time." Cassidy's eyes slowly reddened. "If he'd just called
The Fall Guy for a Fake Cheating Scandal Chapter 9
I opened my phone, and a birthday reminder popped up.Clint's birthday was just a week away.People always say that losing a partner of many years is no different from losing family.Losing a friend is the same.I cried. Not hysterically, and I didn't fall apart. I just looked at those photos and couldn't hold it in.How could such a good friend change like that?I couldn't understand it.I opened the group chat and scrolled through the messages from back when it used to be lively. Dinners, birthdays, trips, griping about work. Every single one felt like a flake of skin shed from the life we used to have.Before long, Clint's parents tracked me down outside my office building.His mother burst into tears the moment she saw me. "Ray, I know you and Clint are the closest. He's in trouble now, and he's on the verge of a breakdown. Could you please tell the police he didn't mean to implicate you?"I stepped around her.His father blocked my way. "Don't rush off. Clint said he on
The Fall Guy for a Fake Cheating Scandal Chapter 8
The rest of the truth came together piece by piece.By the time Lainey's older sister, Cassidy Wilson, arrived, it was almost dawn.She wore a black coat, her hair pulled back tight. When she heard her sister was dead, she didn't break down sobbing. She just braced herself against the wall and stood there for a long time, her fingernails slowly digging into her palms.When the police questioned her, she gave them some information.Lainey had recently been planning to break up with Clint.Not because of cheating. Because of money.Clint had taken out several online loans using Lainey's identity and transferred over a hundred thousand dollars out of their joint account. When Lainey found out, she demanded he pay it all back within a month and was getting ready to go to the police.On the day of the murder, she'd asked Clint to meet her at the Prescolt Hotel because it was close to her studio. She wanted to show him the evidence face-to-face and end things for good."She texted me
The Fall Guy for a Fake Cheating Scandal Chapter 7
The Prescolt Hotel's security footage was pulled up quickly.In the lobby footage, I entered the hotel at 12:02 a.m. I stood at the elevators for less than ten seconds, then turned around and sat down in the lounge area.At 12:06, I went to the front desk to ask the time.At 12:11, I spoke with the receptionist and the manager.At 12:18, I called the police.From start to finish, I never got into an elevator. I never went to the guest floors. I never left the cameras' view for more than half a minute.The elevator footage also proved that, at no point after midnight, had I ridden any elevator upstairs.The sixteenth-floor hallway footage was even cleaner. No me. Not even my shadow. Not a single trace of me anywhere near 1608.Officer James laid the screenshots out on the table.Clint's crying finally died down.But what really made his face change was footage from much earlier.5:14 p.m.Clint walked into the Prescolt Hotel wearing a baseball cap and a face mask. He kept hi
The Fall Guy for a Fake Cheating Scandal Chapter 6
We were both taken to the police station.Clint sat in a separate interview room. Through the glass, I could see he was still crying.He cried for a long time. Every time someone walked by, he looked up like a victim who'd been wronged in every way possible.I sat on a bench in the hallway holding a cup of hot water, but I couldn't bring myself to take a single sip."Are you and Clint close?" Officer James asked me."We used to be," I said."Used to be?"I was quiet for a few seconds. "After tonight, I'm not so sure."He didn't comment. He just had me walk him through everything from start to finish.I told him Clint had called me. That he claimed he was on a train. That he'd sent me the room number and the code. That he'd refused video, refused to share his location, refused the front desk, and refused to call the police. That he and the group chat had kept pushing me to go upstairs.Of course, I didn't mention the comments. All I said was, "I felt like something was off."
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In that moment, my legs nearly gave out. If I hadn't grabbed the sofa beside me, I might have collapsed right there.The comments were real.There was no cheating in Room 1608. Only a dead body.Lainey was dead. She'd died before Clint ever asked me to open that door.Mr. Lehne's face was frighteningly pale. The receptionist clapped a hand over her mouth, her eyes wide.Officer James came back down quickly. He looked at me, his tone even more serious than before. "Don't leave yet. We'll need you to cooperate with the investigation."I nodded. "I understand."My phone wouldn't stop buzzing. The group chat with our friends had exploded.Steve sent a string of question marks.Steve: [What's going on? Why did the cops go up there?]Steve: [Ray, did you actually call the police?]Steve: [Where's Clint? I can't get hold of him.]I didn't respond. I sat back down on the lobby sofa, my fingers trembling nonstop.Half an hour later, someone burst through the hotel's revolving door.
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