All Chapters of I Arrested My "Dead" Husband: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

For a second, my mind went completely blank.Then, every voice around me seemed to recede until it sounded as though everyone were speaking from somewhere far away.A fake marriage certificate?Victor and Denise had lost their parents when they were young. My parents had brought the two of them into our home and raised them as if they were their own children.The three of us had grown up together.On my 18th birthday, Victor had bought sparklers and taken me to the beach. With their lights flickering around us, he'd kissed me on the forehead."Alyssa, let me protect you for the rest of my life."I'd believed we would stand beside each other until we were old.Then, Rebecca spoke."You can't force someone to love you, Alyssa. Yes, your family did a lot for Victor, but that doesn't mean you get to make him spend the rest of his life repaying you. That's incredibly selfish."I stared at her in disbelief. Then, I slowly looked at everyone else.These were the people I'd loved mo

Victor took one look at Colette's swollen cheeks before turning to me with a venomous glare.My heart sank when I met his eyes.Victor was known for his easygoing temperament. In all the years I'd known him, I'd rarely seen him look at anyone with such contempt.Yet today, because of another woman, he'd given me that look more than once."Alyssa Thorpe, there's no getting through to you. If you're determined to keep coming after Colette, then don't blame me for taking this further."He grabbed my arm and hauled me out of the infirmary, dragging me down the hall and into an interrogation room.Then, right in front of me, he tore up the statement he'd agreed to provide and placed another document on the table.It was a consent form for a psychiatric evaluation.According to the report, years of stress from police work had caused me to become mentally unstable, suffer from delusions, and lose control of my behavior. It also stated that I was voluntarily stepping away from field du

Half an hour later, everyone was back at the police headquarters.The search-and-rescue captain gently set a dripping evidence bag on the table.Inside was a silver ring, blackened almost beyond recognition by the fire.Victor had bought it for me when we were 18, using the money from his first scholarship. He'd found it at a local market and spent 200 dollars on it.That night by the ocean, he'd slipped the inexpensive ring onto my finger. Blushing, he'd promised that he would spend the rest of his life protecting me.Years later, even after I became the respected captain of a criminal investigations unit, I'd never stopped wearing it. The ring had become badly scratched and worn with age, but I'd always kept it with me as though it were priceless.Now, it was charred beyond recognition, and there was no body attached to it."The van exploded underwater after it went into the river," the rescue captain explained. "We found the ring near the wreckage."We also found a large amo

After I changed into regular clothes, Evan asked me to come to his office.He didn't immediately explain why. Instead, he made a pot of coffee, poured me a cup, and slid it across the desk.I watched the steam rise for a moment before breaking the silence. "Did you run a background check on me?"Evan didn't bother denying it. He met my eyes and nodded."Of course. I'm responsible for more than a hundred children here. I have every employee thoroughly vetted before I bring them on. Judging by the way you fight, nobody moves like that after taking a few weekend self-defense classes."After a brief pause, his tone grew serious."Alyssa Thorpe. Former captain of a criminal investigations unit with the Jorvia Police Department. You had a reputation for cracking some of the department's toughest cases. The rest of the world believes you died in that explosion two years ago."My fingers tightened around the cup.I'd spent two years trying to leave that life buried, and Evan had brough