All Chapters of Unmatched Wife: Not His To Claim Anymore: Chapter 261

Chapter 261CALI looked at Theo. He was watching this exchange with the kind of careful attention I'd come to recognize in him over the past weeks — the attention of a kid who'd learned, the hard way, that adults lie to children for reasons they think are good, and that the only defense against it was paying very close attention to everything, all the time, so nothing got past him twice."You believe her?" I asked Theo directly, because that mattered more to me right now than whether I believed her.Theo didn't answer right away. "I don't know," he said finally. "I saw a room. There were tables in it. There was a face on one of them that looked like hers." A pause. "She didn't tell me I was wrong about that. She just told me the other thing was true. About leaving on purpose."That was, I thought, a strange thing for a liar to admit to a frightened kid, if she was lying. A liar trying to win him over fast would have denied the room, denied the table, smoothed it all into something co