The Secrets We Share by Edwin Hill

Author:Edwin Hill [Hill, Edwin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

GLENN ABBOTT’S IMAGINATION HAS GONE TO THE WRONG PLACE. She sits on a wooden bench in the crowded precinct as people stare at her—police officers, detectives, other criminals—all striding by and looking at her in the way you look at a murderer. And why would they do anything else? Her husband is dead. Her non-lover, too, and everything, every action, points directly to her. Those detectives, her friend Zane, they’ve probably stopped considering other suspects. Glenn can’t even think of someone else for them to consider. Jake didn’t have enemies, at least not ones she knew about.

“Here,” Charlotte says, standing over her and holding out Glenn’s phone.

Glenn takes the phone. The clock is ticking toward eleven. She also takes note, again, of Charlotte’s suit, of her hair, of the expensive bag that rests on her forearm. Yesterday Glenn and Charlotte had been the same, privileged, educated women with nothing to lose. Women who never imagined once that the world would turn against them. Now they couldn’t be more different. Charlotte sits on one side of accusation, along with the rest of the world, and Glenn, in her yoga pants and ill-fitting sweatshirt, sits on the other, where she suspects she’ll be from now on.

“And I wouldn’t look at that phone,” Charlotte adds. “We can deal with everything after we make our escape.”

Glenn has over forty texts and voicemails. Those she can ignore. She scrolls right to Mavis and sends her a text: Tell me you’re okay.

Mavis responds a moment later. Fine.

Where are you?

Busy.

Tell Aunt Natalie I’ll give her a call.

Next, she scrolls to Patrick’s name and pulls up the texts she’d sent him yesterday—Meet me. I need to see you.—reading them now through a new lens, as a detective building a case. They’re salacious, or as salacious as Lieutenant Angela White will need to make them. Glenn had barely held it together in that room when the lieutenant told her that Patrick was dead, and Glenn wasn’t upset because she’d miss him. She’s terrified of what the police will assume when they read these messages.

“Don’t delete anything,” Charlotte says. “It’ll only look worse.”

“I need to call my sister,” Glenn says. “She has Mavis.”

“Let’s get out of here first. You don’t want to say anything that anyone might overhear.” Charlotte offers a hand, and Glenn takes it, letting her friend haul her to her feet. Charlotte slips an arm through Glenn’s. “And you need to prepare yourself. It’s a zoo out there. And it’s only going to get worse.”

Glenn’s legs feel like jelly. She’s frightened, more frightened than she’s allowed herself to admit.

“All we need to do is get to the car,” Charlotte says.

They turn the corner.

Outside, on the sidewalk, a phalanx of reporters waits, microphones in hand, cameras ready.

“Keep your head up, your eyes forward, and think about something boring,” Charlotte says.

As soon as the precinct door opens, the noise and the rush hit Glenn as two uniformed officers create a path for them to wade through a sea of humanity.

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