Chapter 7
The monitoring software was hidden deep in Edwards phone settings, dispused as a battery optimization app.
discovered purely by accident we trying to forward him our divorce attorney’s contact infamation.
ages for wat se months
The app had been tracking local recording calls, and copying his next messages for over six mor
Isabela had been watchingbo
My hands trembled as I scrolled through the apps interface
Every restaurant Edward had taken to was
to was logged with GPS coordinates
Everyone called shaved was corded and archived.
Every text message besede nedenal ses
1 building a digital danser of our manage
nes is professenal–grade uzyware Preps xng the screen
Mary–level encryphon, mal tee data mining. This isnt nome jealous gifriend nonsense
myhone room at the Langham, my mind racing though the implications
fer cold beneath my feet, enthough the plan hotellen
London skyline gltered outside
Everything Id been denied for the years
She knew about London before Edward did. She knew about the Momsondeal about Vincents offer about everything”
medical records through our icon The pregnancy blood worki
but the houndimages? The stock photos from a medical to
textbook. The date has been photoshoped
The room lighty as the full scope of tabelas decapit
She had just been lying about her past.
jant been fyrg about
Shed been actively sabotaging my futan
Using tutor to say one step ahead of
apsimunity I might lead
Every end had called about potential opportunities, she’d been butoning.
My laptopched with an incoming video call.
creen, his usual composed expression replaced by something I’d never seen before fury-
Sophia, we need to talk Someone’s been shopping my nesting story to the financial press Something about conficts of interstand corporate secrets being shared with unauthorized portes”
The same woman who med to pose as your sister–in–law? Yes, I rather suspected But here’s the thing ring–ve been in this business for twenty years, and i know how to play diy necessary”
“How would you about fast–tracking the Ax–Pacific experion? Im thinking we establish |
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Toms amassmu
Full subnori, equty partnership, and oughts from your dream think y
„al course, you’d prefer to stay and fight there”
about Edwards bleeding progrance equipment and the private in
Aboutthecounts opportunities | d turned down because Edward needed me to be
ing about habis crises
About the
came label had been “acidal and Edward could travel
About the job offers forever about behad been interceping my communications.
“How soon can we itemT
i was predatory.
ship papers right
building systemi Tricked financial regulatzes apoGE FEET
Isabela had been thorough, but shedalo been arogant
She’d left everywhem
to surveillance compares
Digital for equipment purchases
ingying these medical record the vesofinstalation logs, even the recepts for the private gatorami alad for with Edward’s credit card.
For three years, shad been the
Now it was turne for her to understand what do de prey
Chapter
The stared at 3:47 AM contract prosonals in Si
The call came from Philips veight with controledanc
been an incident Edwards apme–your old apanment–its gus
1 sat up in my hotel bed, entary ales,
“Fire Started in the long to
And
room, spread through theater. The dementialing
Smoke inhalation and second–degre burd
thet inderesting part. She want them when i startet but showed up jutute da trucki amed Hysterical claiming shed bung
The fine manhat found accelerantres
he wende where the blad
Tmcoming
“Sophie’s something else. Edward’s phone mconds show he called you feat. Before the paramedies, before the departmental anyone else. His emnelgency contact was listed a you
My hands on my laptop case
Edward had called me
paper–intime of the seached for
Aher everything the len, They the doce paper
The message
“Vocem hvert listened to it pot, but=“_
During theater
e flight back to New York, Histered to Edwards mandaga anvenden biri
İtin voice was tough with smoke and panic, kavely dudale over the sound of and sholaning
the apartments on live i can find my keys, and e
Even if it’s jail pour rense mat
A coughing tripled him
Tony Foreverything I’m so sorry I should hav
When I landed at JFK, Philip was waiting with a lider of fim mental ports and police interview
First,shed it a cand bring accidentaly
Then
started by strange hoes, and ku ocked over a lamp.
Fly, she led Edward had been acting caly and might have stanede fremset during a ‘sychotic episode
“Theres nove,” Pulp and as we drove toward the bos prar
They found accendar phone conditions for dental house files”
11 look that way. But proving will be dick the curring mental breakdown, temporary insanity, all the usual defenses “
At Moumar, Edward key unconsejous in the
Funduracjus in the burn unit, his hands wrapped inwe
The doctor explained th quinc–superficial but damage to his lungs, but nothing thing
lucky
I sat beside his bed, studying the face dance loved more than my own
Exit unconscious looked hauled, broken in
broka in ways that had nothing to do with the fre
“He keeps asking f
e nurse suid quietly.
Teached for his bandagedhand, then stopped.
Same badges,
Dumed, couldnt be rebui
But watching hem breathe,engthwise and faced comthing
The fury was still thane,
math d was something else a strange, noted solel
- despite the lies and betrayal and the peas of marriage to post, Edward was alive
And for the first im in months, that felt like mough
