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Chapter 143: The secret baby
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The Governor’s Wife, His beautiful ruin Chapter 144
EvelynI don’t remember the drive home.I remember pulling into the driveway and sitting in the car for a long time after the engine cut and staring at the blue front door and thinking about how much I had loved this house when I first found it. How I had stood in the empty rooms and thought finally. Finally something that is just mine.I went inside.The bottle of red on the kitchen counter was three quarters full. I poured a glass and drank it standing at the sink looking at nothing and poured another before the first one had settled and took it with me into the sitting room and sat on the couch and stared at the wall.Tobias.Two years old. Dark eyed and round faced and reaching for the sugar dispenser like it was the only thing in the world that mattered. Two years old and Theo had known.I finished the second glass. Poured a third.The thing that kept snagging in me, kept catching on something raw every time I tried to move past it, was not even the baby. It was the calls. Two in
The Governor’s Wife, His beautiful ruin Chapter 143: The secret baby
Evelyn I called the number again. She hung up on me after dropping such news and I wanted to know what she meant by “person of interest “ She picked up on the second ring. “Where are you,” I said. She gave me a restaurant name and an address and said she could be there in thirty minutes. I said fine and hung up and sat with the phone in my lap for a moment then started the engine. She was already there when I walked in. Corner table, away from the window, a woman maybe late twenties in a yellow top with her hair pulled back and a baby settled on her lap. The baby was working something in both fists with complete concentration and didn’t look up when I pulled out the chair across from her and sat down. The woman looked at me and I looked back and neither of us said anything for a moment. “You called me,” I said. “I did.” She adjusted the baby on her knee and looked at me straight. “I’m Camille. This is Tobias.” She turned the baby slightly toward me. “He’ll be two in January.”
The Governor’s Wife, His beautiful ruin Chapter 141: Bail hearing
Evelyn Margaret told me not to come but I went anyway. I found a pharmacy two blocks from the courthouse and bought a black headscarf and a pair of oversized sunglasses and felt ridiculous putting them on while on the checkout . But I bought them anyway. Pulled the scarf low on my forehead in the car and checked my reflection once and looked away. It wasn’t perfect but it was enough to make someone look twice before recognising me and twice was all I needed. The public gallery was already half full by the time I slipped in through the back entrance and found the last seat in the furthest corner where the overhead light had blown and nobody had replaced it. I sat down and kept my head angled toward the floor and waited. The courtroom was nothing like the ones I used to work in. Smaller, lower ceilinged, the room that had absorbed decades of bad decisions and wore them in the walls and the scuffed floors and the bench that had been repaired so many times the wood grain didn’t ma
The Governor’s Wife, His beautiful ruin Chapter 141
Evelyn Alfred opened the door and when he saw me his eyes moved to the street behind me before they came back to my face. “Twice in one week,” he said. “Invite me in or I say what I came to say on your doorstep.” He stepped back. The house felt different in the daytime. Emptier. He led me into the sitting room and didn’t offer me anything and I didn’t want anything either. We both stayed standing because sitting down would have suggested this was going to take longer than it needed to. “I want you to drop the charges against Theo,” I said. He looked at me for a moment. Then he almost smiled. “Is that what you came here for.” “I’m not asking. I’m offering you something in return.” That landed differently. He unfolded his arms and looked at me with the full weight of his attention for the first time since I’d walked in. “I see you paused the divorce,” he said. “The one you’ve always wanted. So you can fight for your boyfriend.” “That’s not what I came here to discus
The Governor’s Wife, His beautiful ruin Chapter 140: The visit
EvelynThe visiting room had three other people in the visiting room when I arrived. A woman with a toddler climbing her lap. Two men on opposite ends of a bench pretending the other didn’t exist. I took the chair closest to the partition and sat with my hands flat on the table.The door on his side opened.He came through in the grey they’d issued him, no jacket, hair pushed back, and the tiredness on his face wasn’t the kind that sleep fixes. He saw me the second he cleared the door and stopped walking for just a moment before the officer behind him gestured and he kept moving and came to the partition and sat down . He looked at me through the scratched plastic between us.“You’re not supposed to be here.”“I know.”“Margaret told you not to come anywhere near this building.”“She said four streets away. I parked five.”“You are so stubborn.”I smiled and felt my eyes go before I could stop them. I looked down at the table, my eyes blinked hard twice and looked back up. He was stil
The Governor’s Wife, His beautiful ruin Chapter 139
Evelyn Margaret dropped the folder on my kitchen table and sat down and I sat across from her. The charge sheet was eleven pages. I read every line twice and by the fourth page I understood why Alfred had looked so unbothered at his doorstep. This wasn’t something put together in a morning. This had been in preparation for weeks, maybe longer, organized and layered and built by people who knew exactly what they were doing. Unauthorized access to protected campaign systems. Theft of confidential materials. Breach of NDA. Disclosure of protected information to unauthorized parties. Trespassing on private property on multiple recorded occasions. Each charge had dates attached. Specific dates, specific locations, specific files. “They have logs,” Margaret said, turning a page toward me. “Server access logs showing every time he was in those systems outside of his authorized hours. Forty three separate instances.” I looked at the dates. “They’ve been building this for months,” I said
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