Page 94 of In the Air Tonight

Fucking hell.

“Are you mad?” Sienna asks me in a soft voice that’s so not like her.

“No.”

“I did what I thought was right, Cam. I was protecting you and your family, like always.”

“I know.”

“You knew, didn’t you?”

I look over at her. “Knew what?”

“That he did it. You weren’t surprised to hear me confirm it. You were only surprised to hear I saw it.”

My head aches as I try to figure out how I should reply. And then I decide to go with the truth. “Yes, I knew.”

“For how long?”

“From the beginning.”

“What does it say about us that we’ve never told each other what we knew?”

“It says we both realized we were sitting on a powder keg and chose to keep our mouths shut, even with each other.”

“It makes me sad that you felt you couldn’t trust me with what he’d told you when you know I’ve always been loyal to you and your family.”

“I know that, Sienna, but I didn’t want you burdened with this.”

“Is that what you’ve been? Burdened?”

It’s the deepest conversation we’ve had in a while, which says something about the state of our marriage. “I hate that he made himself feel better by telling me he did it. I’ve been angry with him about that for years, not to mention he did it in the first place. That’s the part I still can’t believe. What the hell could he have been thinking?”

“Can I ask you something else and will you tell me the truth?”

I’m suddenly as tired as I’ve been in years. “Yeah, I’ll tell you the truth.”

“The affidavit you all signed. Was that true?”

I ache when I think about being part of that. “No, it wasn’t.”

Her expression is so relieved that I realize she’s wanted to ask me that for years.

“What’re you going to do about Blaise?”

“I have no idea.”

“You’ve got to do something before she ruins everything.”

“I’ll take care of it.” I look over at her. “Don’t you do anything about her. Do you hear me?”

A guilty look crosses her face. “I might’ve already texted her and reminded her to keep her mouth shut.”

“Goddamn it, Sienna! Why would you do that? Maybe she’s wavering and you pushed her right over the edge.”

“I wanted her to know people are watching her.”

“Stay out of it from now on. You got me?”

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