Page 9 of New Beginnings
She nodded. "Do you have any idea why your wife may have been found where she was?"
That was a question I had asked myself over and over again. It was one of the many reasons I questioned whether it was even an accident.
“From the information Caesar gave me,” she continued, “she had just dropped your daughter off at daycare and should have been going to a doctor’s appointment which would have been in the other direction. Is that correct?”
“I have no idea why she was there. And yes, she was supposed to have a nine o’clock appointment. She was in the last month of her pregnancy.”
“Covering all basis, I checked to see if she had a doctor’s appointment. She didn’t.”
I cocked my head to the side, letting the information settle within my mind and heart. It was like a sledgehammer had been taken to my heart and shattered it into a million pieces.
“She lied.”
It wasn’t a question because Rebel couldn’t answer it. It was the truth. Dani had fucking lied to me before she left the house that morning.
If Dani didn’t have a fucking doctor’s appointment, then where the hell was she going?
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He masked his shock quickly. It had to be hard to find out someone you had placed on a pedestal might not be the person you thought they were. I felt awful that I was the one who had to deliver the news to him.
I wasn’t in the position to tell him if his wife had lied to him or her reasons for not being truthful with him. It was my job to present him with the evidence uncovered without any judgment. Dani wasn’t where she was supposed to be. That was a fact. Not only did J.D. want to know the reasons for this, so did I.
“What can you tell me about that day?”
He sat back in his chair, pinching the bridge of his nose.
“Umm... we woke up around our normal time. She cooked breakfast then told me she had a doctor’s appointment at nine. We were going to meet for lunch, go pick up Siobhan after, then head home.”
“Did you know about this appointment before she told you that morning? Or was it a reminder?”
His brows pulled together, then he looked up at me. “I didn’t know about it.”
“By the look on your face, that was out of the ordinary.”
“It was, but I didn’t question it at the time. It was almost time for the baby, so I just assumed she was being careful. Most of her appointments I went to but this time I had somewhere to be so I couldn’t go.”
“Did she know your plans?”
“Yes.” He ran his hand through his hair. “Fuck! What the hell were you up to Dani?” he mumbled.
“Could she have been cheating on you?”
It was a question I had to ask. She was keeping something from him. Although by the stories Caesar had told me, they were madly in love with each other to the point of obsession. So, something was missing from the story. We had to look at cheating as a possibility because she was hiding something.
His eyes snapped to mine. I could imagine the fear that one look caused in a lot of people—probably most people. But I wasn’t one of those people he could scare because I didn’t scare easily. And no matter how many angry glares he threw my way, I’d say what needed to be said. I’d ask the questions he didn’t want to ask or hear out loud so we could sort this out.
My eyes dropped to his hand where he was twisting the wedding band around his finger. Then my eyes rose, meeting his angry glare.
“I’m not saying she was J.D., but we have to cover all basis if you want to find out what happened.”
“So, you believe me? You believe it wasn’t an accident?”
A heavy sigh escaped my lips. “There are some strange things that happened with the investigation, but I haven’t decided onwhat I think happened. With that being said, I can see why you have questions.”
“She lied to me about the doctor’s appointment. There’s no disputing that, but there’s no fucking way my Old Lady cheated on me. And there’s no fucking way, I’d ever cheat on her before you ask.”
