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“Promise you’ll write me,” she goes on. “Promise you’ll visit me. Some inmates earn conjugal visits. Maybe we can do that.”
“Yes, maybe,” I lie.
“And you’ll leave her?”
“Whatever you want. Just give our son the justice he deserves.”
My fake admission gives her hope, and she lets everything out.
I want to die as I digest her confession.
Thirty-Six
Lauren
“Are we becoming best friends?”I ask when I answer Kyle’s call.
“Bite me, Satan,” he replies. “I’m calling about your arsonist reputation. We found the cause of the fire.”
“Please tell me it wasn’t a sugar cookie–scented candle from my apartment.”
“It was meth.”
“Meth! In my apartment?”
The hell?
He chuckles. “No, it never started in your place. Another tenant took up the hobby of cooking it.”
Great, so I was living in a meth lab. Cool.
“You’re joking.”
“Nope, and your creepy-ass landlord is smack dab in the middle of said meth ring. Turns out, phony rich kid has made some dough, selling drugs.”
“Can’t say it surprises me.”
“He has quite the record, including assaulting multiple women. One of his men snitched on him, but we have yet to locate him. You need to be careful until we do. If you see him, call me right away.”
Yep. My creep-dar is never wrong.
“I appreciate the heads-up. And can we not mention this to Gage right now?”
“Haven’t said a word to him. Don’t intend to until shit dies down.”
“Thank you.”
He blows out a stressed breath. “How’s our guy doing?”
I wish I knew the honest answer to that. “He went to see Missy today.”
The rational part of me knows this is what he needs even though the irrational half told me to stop him. No matter the outcome, whatever happens with Missy won’t be easy. I only hope it clears things up for him. There’s no doubt he feels guilt over entrusting Andy in the hands of the woman who killed him.
“Bitch-face, murderer Missy?” he asks.
“The one and only.”
“You should’ve gone with him and beat her ass.”
