“I betrayed him forty-two years ago.”
Mercer was arrested on financial c/rime, conspiracy, obstruction, and old m/u/rder-related charges.
Rebecca was detained too.
Before agents took her away, she asked for one minute with Daniel.
He stood several feet from her.
She reached toward him.
He didn’t move closer.
“I did love you.”
His eyes were wet.
“I believe you.”
Hope flickered across her face.
Then he continued.
“But loving someone does not erase what you do to them.”
Rebecca nodded.
“I know.”
This time, nobody objected to those words.
Perhaps she finally did.
Outside, the night was bitterly cold.
Ryan embraced Emily.
Thomas stood beneath a streetlight speaking with investigators.
Daniel walked alone toward the parking lot.
Michael approached me.
“Maggie.”
I did not turn.
The danger might have been ending.
The lies were not.
I was glad my husband was alive.
But I had no idea whether I wanted him back.
