He Married Me to Steal My Family’s Shipyard. My Brother Spent Fifteen Years in a Wheelchair Waiting to Prove It

I would make the same choice again.

I would just grieve it sooner.

Chapter 10 — What He’d Been Doing

And then the recording gave me the thing I had not known to brace for.

“Honestly,” Callum said, easy and unhurried, “the bay was almost unnecessary.

She’s been sick for a long time, and getting sicker.

I’ve been seeing to that for years.

Give it a few more months and her body would have simply given out on its own, and no one would ever have thought to ask a single question.”