Chapter 52 - The Husband I Buried

Now

My heart pounded. The warmth of the reunion had cooled, replaced by something sharper. More dangerous.

I thought of the months leading up to the crash. The documents I wasn’t supposed to see. The meeting Elizabeth had told me not to worry about. The change I’d seen in Luis that had kept me digging to figure out what was going on.

The papers I’d found, implicating him.

I thought of the night I’d stood in the garage, heart hammering, telling myself I was protecting everything I had built. I wouldn’t become a deck in a takedown, my career in tatters because of the choices he’d made, while I stood beside him in public and paid the price for his silence.

It felt like the ultimate betrayal, not trusting me with his secrets. Letting me believe a lie.

And if he hadn’t brought me here, then who had? And why?

What did they really want from me?