“Then why are you nervous?”
David said nothing.
Jessica lowered her voice.
“David, I need to know something. When this is over, will the estate really be transferred to you?”
He glanced toward me again.
“Yes.”
“All of it?”
“Everything we’ve discussed.”
She smiled.
“Good.”
Then she leaned closer to my ear.
“Because I’ve already ordered the curtains.”
I closed my eyes.
David laughed.
“Come on. We have somewhere to be.”
They left.
But Jessica’s handbag had slipped beneath the chair.
I noticed it immediately.
So did Mara, who entered a few minutes later.
She picked it up.
“Mrs. Mercer, they forgot something.”
She placed it on the table.
Then she stopped.
A small photograph had fallen from an outer pocket.
Mara picked it up.
Her face went pale.
“What on earth…?”
I focused my eyes on the picture.
It showed David standing beside a woman I had never seen.
