Maria finished the story and lay back against the pillow, exhausted by the telling.

And Daniel understood that his fiancee had not only plotted his brother’s death.

She had, a few hours earlier, nearly killed the one witness who could prove it, and had been in the process of hiding the evidence when he found her.

He had almost slept through it.

He had almost, in four months, married her.

Chapter 13 — She Knew Andrew Before

Maria looked at him then, and said, “There’s more.”