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Chapters (87)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
  5. START READING
  6. CHAPTER ONE
  7. CHAPTER TWO
  8. CHAPTER THREE
  9. CHAPTER FOUR
  10. CHAPTER FIVE
  11. CHAPTER SIX
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT
  14. CHAPTER NINE
  15. CHAPTER TEN
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE
  18. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  20. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  22. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  23. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  24. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  45. CHAPTER FORTY
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  54. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  55. CHAPTER FIFTY
  56. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  57. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  58. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
  59. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
  60. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
  61. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
  62. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
  63. CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
  64. CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
  65. CHAPTER SIXTY
  66. CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
  67. CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
  68. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
  69. CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
  70. CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
  71. CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
  72. CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
  73. CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT
  74. CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
  75. CHAPTER SEVENTY
  76. CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
  77. CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO
  78. CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE
  79. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR
  80. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE
  81. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
  82. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN
  83. CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT
  84. CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE
  85. CHAPTER EIGHTY
  86. EPILOGUE
  87. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A few days later, I make it a point to run into Adam Warner. I learned his routine and his wife’s in about two minutes on Facebook and by sitting out in my car two doors down from their house. Sophie left first. It made my stomach roil to see her. She was very pretty. I could see how Connor would like her. She was younger too. Probably more fun than me. I didn’t even want to go there, but I couldn’t help myself. I wondered what the two of them said about me. How they must have laughed at my inability to become pregnant. How it came so easily and accidentally to them when I put so much effort into it.

That wasn’t what made me sick when I watched Sophie. It was seeing her and that little girl—a girl that I felt was half mine. Or should be half mine. It was my husband that made that baby! Aubrey was perfect. She was the little girl that I dreamed about when I went to sleep in tears after having Dr. Y or some stupid girl at the herbal store tell me that I was not going to get pregnant.

That I should just give up and adopt!

Idiot.

Twenty minutes later, Adam backed his car out of the driveway. I followed him half a block, and then I started honking and waving frantically. He pulled over and got out, thinking that there’d been an accident.

“What do you want?” he asked, recognizing me right away.

“The same thing you do,” I said.

He pretended to push back, but I’m persuasive. That’s what I do.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Yes, I know you do,” I said. “I want you to meet me in the bar at the Four Seasons at seven.”

“I won’t meet you anywhere,” he said.

“We have the same interests here, Adam. Our spouses betrayed us, and your marriage is going to end. You know it. And you’ll be stuck paying child support for a kid that’s not yours. You’ll hate every minute of your life for the next fifteen years. Aubrey will be a reminder of how Sophie betrayed you. A knife in your back. You know it. I know it. I have a solution. Meet me there.”

He looked at me like he’d been hit with an air gun. Just flat-out stunned. I had no idea if he’d come or not.

He did, of course.

God, men are so easy.

I see the detective’s crappy car in front of Adam’s house and park behind it. I remove the gun from my glove box and go to the door. Connor bought it for me after our neighbor was assaulted.

Connor had his good points.

All right. One good point.

CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX

CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX

LEE