Chapter 18

Claire’s eyes burned with hatred.

“Nathan’s a perfectionist about his grooming he’d never leave stubble in his razor,” I said softly. “You planted that evidence, didn’t you?”

“When he showed me those gloves I’d given him, everything clicked. He might have betrayed me, but he’d never use something I made as a bathroom prop.”

“You spotted me following that day. So you staged it all the stubble, the scarf, the lingerie carefully arranged on the

bed.”

“Then you saw my car and put on your little show. How pathetically desperate.”

I met her unhinged stare. “Your greed ruined everything. If you hadn’t tried to manipulate me with that shaving setup, you could’ve kept playing house in the shadows. You got greedy, Claire. That’s on you.”

Suddenly there was a blur of motion – Nathan’s hands wrapping around Claire’s throat.

pretense of control gone. “Everything! You scheming witch! You killed my parents and now you’ve taken Emma from me! You’re

as she went

struggling to

them, completely unraveled. “I’ll kill you!”

her feet, gasping

the one who destroyed everything – us,

to die!”

turned on me, something feral in her eyes. “Everything will be ours once you’re gone!”

flash of metal in her hand.

“Emma!”

himself between us. The blade catching the harsh fluorescent

his white shirt like spilled wine. He looked down, almost puzzled, then back at me. His

he whispered, trying for that old familiar smile one last

gave out. He crumpled like a marionette

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