He Laughed and Asked What Money I Thought I Was Leaving With Since I “Didn’t Even Have a Job” – He Never Knew the Dependent Wife He’d Built a Cage Around Was Sitting on Sixty-One Million Dollars

And a laptop he forgot to close made everyone look closely at once.

Chapter 10 — Lie for Me

Before the week was out, Gavin appeared at my new door without his tie, gray-faced, and made a request that proved he still did not understand a single thing that was happening to him.

“Nora, I need you to lie for me.”

I kept him out in the hallway so his voice wouldn’t wake Mia.

“Say that again.” He swallowed.