I had not yet decided whether to end the marriage.

I wanted to believe Gavin had stopped the process.

Now I remembered the documents in Bianca’s hands and wondered whether he had simply found another way to make a false story look true.

PART 6

Bianca came downstairs in her own clothes.

She had folded my robe into a neat square and left it outside the nursery, just as I requested.

When Lauren asked about the petition, Bianca hesitated before unlocking her phone.