All Chapters of The Hockey Billionaire's Regretted Wife: Chapter 11 - Chapter 13

POV: RomanI am out of the car before the black sedan finishes stopping, because I know that white hair and that overcoat, and I know what kind of man arrives at a widower's house at one in the morning with a driver and no hurry."Harlan," I say, stepping onto the path between him and the front door.He turns with a smile that has ended careers, and he tips his head as if we have met at a charity dinner. "Roman Hayes. My daughter said you were sentimental, but I did not expect you to follow your ex-wife to Dorchester.""She is my wife," I say. "She never signed the papers.""How romantic," Harlan says. "It will make the next part more interesting.""Step away from this house," I tell him, and my voice is calm because the alternative is putting him through the porch railing."I am a guest, Roman, and the man inside invited me long before you were involved," Harlan says, straightening his cuffs. "Three years ago he shook my hand, and he has been paying me ever since."Behind him, the fr

POV: RomanI move before I think. I shove Audrey behind me, snatch the brass lamp off the nightstand, and cross the bedroom in two strides with the paper still crushed in my fist."Whoever you are, step into the light," I say.The floorboard creaks again. A small figure in a gray coat appears at the edge of the doorway with both hands raised, and I stop with the lamp above my shoulder, because the trembling shape in front of me is seventy years old and has been dusting my mother's photographs since I was six."Beatrice?" I say."Please put that down, Mr. Roman," Beatrice Whitlock says, and her voice is thin as paper. "I have wanted to say this to you for three years, and I am too old to be hit with a lamp."I lower it slowly. Audrey steps out from behind my shoulder, and I feel her go rigid against my arm."You were the voice," Audrey says."I used a device to change it," Beatrice says, drawing a small black box from her pocket with shaking fingers. "Forgive me, Mrs. Hayes. I could no