Chapter 5

The restaurant door remained open behind Ethan. Conversations inside had stopped.

Helen came into the hallway first. Paige followed her.

“What is going on?” Helen asked.

I turned the screen toward Ethan.

“Tell them why you instructed the hotel to cancel our anniversary dinner under my name.”

Ethan glanced past me at the front desk.

“The hotel used an electronic form. I did not forge her handwriting.”

He was still choosing the smallest part of what he had done.

I opened the email and read aloud.

“If Claire asks, tell her there was a scheduling problem at the hotel. Once…