Chapter Eleven

As Katie drove home, she didn't know how she was feeling. She was worried about James' health, and she was angry that he had been keeping his involvement with Wyatt from her. Throughout their marriage, she had never once kept any secrets from him and it was difficult for her to accept that he might not be the same man that she had married. Perhaps it was true what everyone had warned her about when he started his political career; power would corrupt even the most honest of men. Katie had the utmost faith in her husband that he would be the exception to the rule. Now she wasn't so sure.

The family home of State Senator James O'Brien wasn't much different from those of his constituents who lived on the lake on the outskirts of Abbeyville. Katie wasn't sure if it was her nerves or the car driving over the designer brick and pebble driveway that was causing her hands to shake as she drove the pick-up into the three-car garage. Knowing what might await her when she entered the op