You would tell yourself that my marriage was just an unfortunate domestic situation, that it wasn’t your place to interfere.
You wanted so badly to believe you were an ordinary woman that you blinded yourself to what was happening to me.”
She pointed a finger at the bruised, swollen flesh over her ribs.
“So I raised the stakes.I told Garrett I was pregnant with another man’s child.
I told him the baby belonged to a stable hand from the country club.
I deliberately broke Evelyn’s heirloom silver tea service in front of three witnesses and spat in her face.
I gave them every reason to lose their minds.
I made sure they hit me hard enough to create a felony record, and then I dropped myself at that bus stop where I knew the municipal cameras would catch the local police covering it up.”
She leaned back, her breathing shallow, her eyes burning with a terrifying, triumphant light.
