She stared at him.
“I thought you’d panic.”
“I did panic,” he replied. “But not because of you.”
“Then why?”
Arthur looked at the wedding photograph on the dresser.
“Because I realized how badly I had wanted to believe in you.”
For a moment, Claire had no answer.
Then she whispered, “I didn’t know how much this would hurt.”
Arthur shook his head.
“That is what people say when they discover that their plans have consequences.”
He left the bedroom and closed the door behind him.
But rather than retreating into the darkness of his mansion, Arthur walked directly to his study.
Someone was waiting there.
His attorney, Helen Moore.
Beside her sat Daniel Foster, an independent financial investigator.
Arthur placed Claire’s recording device on the desk.
“She revealed everything.”
Helen nodded.
“Did she explain her father’s involvement?”
“Enough to confirm what we’ve been investigating.”
