Chapter 11

I didn't take the phone Ethan held out to me. Instead, I unlocked my own screen and opened the college alumni group chat. Ethan's message sat at the bottom of the thread, posted three minutes before he walked through my studio door. [The video shared last night left out the truth. Over the past several months, I crossed the line into an affair with Lauren, and I took money from our Family Reserve Account without Claire's knowledge.] A second paragraph followed beneath it. [Claire never mistreated...