The Woman in Room 412
To see another woman go rigid at a husband’s touch and, this once, before it was too late, open her mouth.
I was, she told me, the reason she hadn’t let go yet.
I had been her unfinished sentence, and now she could finish it.
The trial ran fourteen months, and Devon’s lawyers tried to paint me as a bitter, hysterical wife who’d broken into his office — but the warrants made every photograph admissible, and the forensics pulled the drafted wills, the route logs, the tracker registration, and searches on his own hard drive that I will not repeat.
The frozen offshore money came home.
We cleared the debts his fraud had buried the company under, and saved the jobs of more than a hundred and twenty people.