He Removed His Hearing Aids and Said “Close Your Eyes, Sweetheart,” and Everyone in the Room Thought They Knew What Was Coming — Then He Unlocked the Door, and It Wasn’t a Weapon Standing There, It Was a Detective With the Evidence

Not out of fear.

Because I did not want my face to give away the one thing in that room that Trent had not accounted for.

Chapter 5 — The Bunny

I lowered my eyes because the small plush rabbit tucked beside Lily in the bassinet had a pinhole camera concealed in its eye, and it had a perfect, clear view of my husband’s chair.

Three months earlier, Trent had shoved me into the edge of the pantry door hard enough to split my lip, and something in me had finally stopped waiting for him to become the man I’d married, because I understood at last that the man I’d married had never existed.