I Knew You Would Come Back

Julian was only trying to help us secure Lily’s future.

And that message was the fatal misstep, the small careless error that people running elaborate deceptions almost always eventually make.

Because Marcus had never mentioned Julian’s name to Sarah.

Not once, since coming home.

He had extracted Lily, gathered his evidence, filed his reports, and said nothing to his wife about a man named Julian, precisely because he was watching to see what she would reveal.

And there it was: she had named the accomplice he had never told her he knew about, confirming, in a single unguarded text, that she knew exactly who Julian was and exactly what he had been trying to help her do.