Delilah did not simply want Vivienne married.

She wanted her married to a man Delilah controlled, so that the land would stay, in every way that mattered, in Delilah’s hands.

And Vivienne, by choosing me, had threatened the one thing Delilah had schemed her whole adult life to keep.

Chapter 11 — No Proof

“We go to the sheriff,” I said.

“Now.

Today.”

But Mrs.