All Chapters of The Wife He Erased : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

The photograph sat between them on the desk like something radioactive. Wren didn't touch it. If she touched it, she'd have to admit it was real, and admitting it was real meant admitting the last four years of careful, deliberate distance had just collapsed into the space of one sentence.*Before she finds our son.*"I don't know what you think you saw in that photo," Wren said, and even she could hear how thin it sounded, "but a pregnant woman in Lisbon isn't exactly evidence of anything.""Wren." Sebastian's voice had lost the courtroom calm from a moment ago. Underneath it now was something rawer, something she remembered from exactly one night five years ago, the night before she left, when he'd come home late smelling of his mother's study and hadn't been able to look at her over dinner. "I have spent five years being told by my own mother that you left because you were unstable. Because marriage frightened you. Because you were never built for this family. I believed pieces of

Wren read the message twice before she trusted herself to speak. Then she turned the phone so Sebastian could see it, because whatever fragile alliance they'd struck in that elevator, she needed him to understand exactly what they were flying toward.He read it once. His face didn't change, but the muscle in his jaw went hard enough that she could see it from across the cabin."She's never been subtle," he said quietly. "But she's never been this fast, either. Two hours ago she had a suspicion. Now she has your address.""She's had my address for longer than two hours." Wren's hands had gone cold again, the way they had in the clinic, and she hated her own body a little for betraying her like this, for not staying steady when steady was the only thing that had kept her safe for five years. "She had a photograph from a park last month, Sebastian. That's not something you assemble in an afternoon. That's surveillance with a budget and a timeline. How long has she known I was in Lisbon?"