AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“I can’t wrap my head around it, Xavier.Howdid this happen? It doesn’t make any sense to me.”
“I don’t know.”
“The collision wasn’t until after five. You got back to the office by noon. That’s fivehours. You left the lawyers, and then where did she go?”
“I don’t know.”
That part is true. My guys were tasked with watching the car and waiting for the right time to cause a crash. But Emery walked off, and they didn’t think to follow her.Idiots. This is why I do things by myself.
“How did the crash happen?”
“I don’t know.”
“Why doesn’t it make sense?”
“I don’t know.”
“Then find out!” she screams. She looks up from the ground to me. “Yourwifeisdead! Dead, Xavier! And you don’t seem the slightest bit bothered to find out how this happened! Considering who you are, I thought you’d be all over this! I thought you would have done whatever you could to find out who did this to her.”
I slowly walk over to her but keep a safe distance between us. “I am going to find out what happened, but there is nothing I can do right now. We need to wait for her autopsy. I can’t look for something that may not exist.”
Her stern glare doesn’t wave. “You are Xavier Rivers. Youhandleeverything. You are thebestin the world. You have the resources at your fingertips. Don’t tell me there’s nothing you can’t do.”
She walks out of the room.
Ray clinks his tumbler against mine. The gold liquid does little to calm the nagging in my brain. Savannah looked unimpressed at the autopsy findings. It turns out Emery waswayover the drinking limit, and she lost control of the car. At least, that’s what the report and the CCTV footage show.
Her death has officially been ruled as an accident.
“I can’t imagine what you’re going through. I’m sorry,” Ray says, breaking the silence.
I look through my glass into the garden. Savannah has been hiding in there for a week since Emery’s death. She returned to hiding when we returned from the autopsy report meeting earlier today. The cameras show her lying in bed. I would have burst my way in if I didn’t see her chest rising and falling.
“We were so close to completing our family. Now, I have a dead wife and a baby without a mother. How am I supposed to do this?” I turn my head so he can see the single tear strolling down my cheek.
He clicks his tongue. “It won’t be easy, but you’ll get through it. One day at a time.”
I look back out to the garden. “I already miss her. I miss her so much I can barely breathe.”
Ray has a sympathetic look etched onto his face. “I hope it gets easier. Take all the time you need. I’ve got the business.”
He asks questions about the funeral arrangements. As she has no family, nobody is stopping me from cremating her. Her ceremony will be small and short. I won’t cry because I’ll have an immortal version of her. In a few months, she’ll be another diamond to my collection and live forever. If I have a daughter, I’ll pass the necklace on, and Emery will be with her.
I ask for a favour. “I need you to control the media around Emery and her death. Nobody can know she was driving under the influence. If anything, even so much as a tweet mentions it, shut it down. I won’t have them making a spectacle of her or her death.”
He sips his whiskey and nods. “Consider it handled.”
“Is that your code for murder?” Savannah appears in the doorway, looking even more exhausted than before.
“Sav.” Ray doesn’t say anything more, which I assume is because of my presence.
“Hux.” She walks further into the room and stands before us. “Did you kill her forhim?”
Ray shoots her a warning look, but it doesn’t faze her. “Listen to what you’re saying.”
She pulls her bottom lip into her mouth and nods. Since we received the news, I don’t think she’s stopped crying. “You murdered my father, and he made Elliot disappear. What else am I supposed to think?”
“I didn’t murder my wife,” I defend.
