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“And then suddenly—nothing. Raskin disappeared off the face of the earth.” Gianni narrowed his gaze. “No phone number, no address…. Took me another five years to learn the truth.”
“Buthow? How did you discover it?”
Saturday, August 4, 2018
“THAT’S WHATI want to know too.” Senator Cain regarded them with a bewildered expression. “How could he have found her? Cheryl never used her dead name after 1985. She obliterated all traces of Benjamin Raskin.”
Gary’s chest tightened. “Gianni found out via an informant. Someone who was reporting back to him on anything that crossed your desk.”
“This informant discovered Cheryl’s previous identity in 1990, Bruno told us,” Dan added. “Not that he knew anything about them. He’d always wondered how Gianni managed to glean so much information about you.”
The senator’s expression grew sober. “I think I mentioned to you that I suspected it was someone working for me, although I could never prove who.”
Gary’s throat seized. “Notworkingfor you—it was your wife.”
Senator Cain paled. “No. You’ve made a mistake.”
Gary’s heart went out to him. “I’m sorry, but it’s true. There’s no doubt.”
The senator stared at him with pain-stricken eyes. “But why would she do that? More importantly, how could she have anything to do with the DiFanettis?”
Dan’s voice was soft.
“Because sheisa DiFanetti.”
Chapter Thirty-Two
SENATOR CAIN’Sthroat worked, but no sound escaped his lips.
Dan could feel his anguish, see the pain in his eyes, and hear his labored breathing.
“I know this is hard to take, but you need to hear it,” he murmured.
The senator stared at him. “Then tell me.” The words came out as a croak.
Dan glanced at Gary, who nodded. “When Bruno found out Gianni had strangled Cheryl, and then learned why he’d done it, he demanded to know how Gianni had discovered the truth.”
“He strangled—” Senator Cain’s eyes glistened.
“Cheryl apparently came around in the car,” Gary told him. “Bruno thinks she didn’t last long, however.”
“That bastard.”
Whatever else Dan wanted to say was lost when the senator broke down, tears trickling down his cheeks. Dan grabbed the box of Kleenex and handed it to Senator Cain.
The senator plucked a tissue from it and wiped his face. “I’m sorry. I can’t stop thinking about how scared she must have been, coming to in his car, thinking she’d be all right….”
“Gianni told Bruno how he’d learned the truth about Cheryl.”
Senator Cain met Dan’s gaze. “She isn’t a DiFanetti. That cannot be true.”
“Gianni told Bruno she’d been adopted.”
The senator shook his head. “It’s a lie. Della would have told me if she was adopted, and she never mentioned it, not once, in all our years of marriage.”
“There’s a reason for that.” Gary looked him in the eye. “She didn’t know.”
