I left my wife outside in the freezing cold because my sister yelled, “That woman is using you”; when I opened the balcony door I found a fingerprint, a cigarette butt and an unfinished letter, but what destroyed me the most was knowing who those $8,000 were really for.

At that moment, a door opened upstairs. Gwen slowly descended the stairs.

Liam stood up. “Gwen, who is Paige Brewer and why did her hair appear on my balcony the night Nora almost died?”

Gwen went white. And for the first time since it all began, she couldn’t come up with a quick lie to defend himself.

PART 3

Gwen leaned against the wall as if her legs no longer responded. Liam took a step forward.

“I asked you a question,” Liam demanded.

She opened her mouth, but only a sob came out. “Liam, I didn’t know it was going to go this far.”

Those words were enough to destroy what little he still wanted to believe. “What didn’t you know?” he asked. “That my wife was sick? That someone was poisoning her? That you humiliated her until she felt alone in her own home?”

Gwen covered her face. “I just wanted to help you.”