Chapter 5

My voice came through the phone.

“—No. That came out wrong. I’ve never asked you to abandon them. I’m asking you to end this arrangement. Stop handing our marriage over to Evelyn.”

The missing eleven seconds ended, and the rest of the message continued.

Owen stared at the table.

Evelyn reached for my phone first. I pulled it closer to me.

“There were other things before and after that,” she said. “You can’t use eleven seconds as proof of everything.”

“You removed them.”

“I cut repetition. Grace, you did say that as long as I was around, the two of…