Perhaps he had never considered what would happen if the women he was using started speaking to each other.
I ended the call only after Margaret confirmed that the investigators had the information they needed.
Then I stepped outside and locked the door behind me.
I didn’t know whether Richard had planned to betray Adrian Vale, whether Adrian had planned to betray Richard, or whether someone else had been manipulating both of them.
I didn’t know whether the document about Richard’s death was a genuine threat or an arrangement whose purpose had yet to be understood.
And I didn’t know who had sent the anonymous messages.
But I knew one thing.
The danger had not disappeared simply because the marriage was over.
Somewhere, there were people who believed my house had been part of their plan.
Somewhere, there were documents that could expose what they had done.
And somewhere, Richard was discovering that the woman he had once dismissed as decorative had become the one person he could no longer control.
