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A chill runs through me, but I don’t turn around.

He’s bluffing.

He’s always bluffing.

But I still can’t shake the chill.

ChapterThirty-Eight

Jason

“What?”I demand.

Blake clears his throat.“I’m going to need a few minutes alone with my client.”

“Of course.”Detective Mann rises.“But we’ve got photos of your client slinking around outside Ralph Normandy’s apartment last night around midnight.”

Fuck.

That car.

I was being followed.

But I wasn’t at Ralph’s.

Once Detective Mann is gone, Blake turns to me.“What exactly were you thinking?”

Confusion whips through me.

And then it all makes sense.

A horrible, dreadful kind of sense.

“I didn’t know it was his place,” I say.

“I can’t help you if you don’t level with me,” Blake says.

“That’s just it.Iamleveling with you.I got that address from one of my late wife’s classmates.I hired a PI and I’ve been looking for her old high-school boyfriend.It’s a long story.”

“I suggest you start telling me now.”

I sigh, rubbing my forehead, trying to ease the ache erupting inside my temples like a ticking time bomb.“I just never thought these things could be related.”

“Start at the beginning, Jason.”

I take a deep breath in, gazing at the door to the interrogation room.“Detective Mann will be back in a few minutes.”

Blake shakes his head.“Detective Mann is required by law to give you as much time with your attorney as you require.We will sit here until you’ve told me the entire story, so we can figure this out together.”

“I just never thought…”

“Stop saying that.And start at the beginning.”

I gulp and pour out the story of the accident, my injury, Julia’s death, and Lindsay’s subsequent suicide.How I gave her suicide note to the cops without reading it myself, and only just after meeting Angie and realizing that I could move forward with life, looked at the note.

The color has drained from Blake’s face.“And you’re sure it’s not her handwriting?”

“Yeah.I took it to her parents, got several journals.I mean, I’m no handwriting expert, but she was my wife.I know her writing.”

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