Victoria’s face went pale.
“I was scared,” she finally said, her voice cracking.
I thought he was going to leave me for her.
I’ve spent my whole life being told my worth ends where my beauty and my money end.
I panicked.
I wasn’t thinking.
You tried to kill someone, the detective said flatly.
Panic doesn’t explain that.
While Victoria faced her own reckoning, something quieter and more important was happening back
