Summerine was incredulous. "How do you evenknowthese things?"
"Because everyone thinks I'm a kid," Billie answered cheekily, "and so no one really watches their word around me."
"I'll consider myself duly warned."
Billie rolled her eyes. "Like you have something to hide about your perfect marriage. I was at another meeting as Logan's proxy, and your husband happened to be seated next to me when I heard him answer his phone."
Summerine struggled not to laugh at the way Billie perfectly imitated the way her husband would reach for his phone. She couldn't put it in words either, but the way Ryu moved was akin to a nocturnal predator on the hunt—-
"Hello, darling," she heard Billie then say.
And just like that, Summerine suddenly felt she was being hunted by her own stupidity.
Billie looked at her teasingly. "Do you call him'darling',too?"
Emergencies
SUMMERINE STRUGGLEDto make sense of her feelings as Andrew drove them back to Evergreen.
Her husband not only led a double life as a criminal.
But he was also guilty of adultery.
And when she caught Andrew glancing at her as he texted something on his phone—-
She finally understood why her chest felt inexplicably tight, and her heart seemed to have turned into stone.
"Are you texting my husband?"
Andrew hurriedly pocketed his phone at her words. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Harcourt."
"For texting my husband?"
"For texting during work hours. It won't happen again."
"Texting during work hours doesn't count if you're texting my husband."
