Chapter 10 - Andrew Learns What Camille Hid
Camille had her own confession.
She had known I was married.
Not to Nathaniel Cross specifically.
But she knew I had a husband.
I stared at her.
“How?”
“Mom told me.”
“When?”
“Last year.”
“And you never asked?”
She looked ashamed.
“I thought if it mattered, you’d bring him around.”
“I stopped bringing people around because Dad interrogated them.”
Andrew looked at his new wife.
“You knew Evelyn was married and let everyone act shocked?”
Camille’s face crumpled.
“I didn’t think it was important.”
There it was.
The family disease in one sentence.
My life became unimportant whenever it competed with Camille’s.
Not because Camille invented the system.
Because she had learned to accept its benefits.
Andrew did not leave her.
He did ask for honesty.
Their honeymoon was postponed while Camille dealt with lawyers,
financial disclosures, and the first serious conflict of their marriage.
I felt guilty for exactly six minutes.
Then I remembered I had not created the documents.
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Truth had terrible timing.
That did not make it the culprit.
