Chapter 4

Darius picked up the phone, and a stranger's voice came through. "Hello, is this Darius Rochester? This is the police. We've found a woman's body in the river. She drowned.

"We've identified the victim as your wife, Vera Ossoff. Could you come down to the station to confirm her identity?"

Darius was stunned for a moment, which was rare for him.

He seemed unable to process what the officer was saying, and it took him a long moment to come back to his senses.

"She committed suicide?" Darius muttered in disbelief. "Are you kidding me? There's no way my wife…