Chapter 2 - Noah Finally Says What Happened
Daniel kept himself between Noah and Claire.
“Tell me.”
Noah wiped his face.
“I saw Mom’s necklace.”
Daniel stopped breathing.
Noah’s mother, Rachel, had died two years earlier.
Her sapphire necklace disappeared the night she died.
Daniel had searched the house, hospital, and car.
Nothing.
Claire stepped forward.
“He’s mistaken.”
Noah shouted:
“I’m not!”
Evelyn tightened her arm around him.
Daniel asked where he saw it.
“In the locked room upstairs.”
The bridal suite.
Claire’s private preparation room had been locked all afternoon.
Noah said he slipped inside when a bridesmaid left the door open.
He saw a blue velvet box inside Claire’s handbag.
Inside was Rachel’s necklace.
Then Claire caught him.
“She told me if I ruined the wedding, you’d send me away.”
The ballroom went completely silent.
Daniel looked at his bride.
“Open your bag.”
May you like
Claire refused.
That was the moment the wedding stopped.
