He said you’d been struck by another car on the way home.

He showed me a hospital form.

I thought I’d lost you.”

“But why would he tell me you died?”

Miriam turned to Lucas, not for permission but because she seemed to need a moment.

He didn’t answer for her.

“Because I had found out what he was doing with the charitable foundation,” she said.

“And because I was going to leave him.”