My Fire Captain Husband Locked Me In To Attend Her Birthday Chapter 10

My Fire Captain Husband Locked Me In To Attend Her Birthday Chapter 10

The hearing ended. We walked out the courthouse doors.

Tessa came flying out of nowhere.

through it. “Dom!”

Her face was sallow, her hair unwashed. She’d been

She lunged at him, but the bailiffs blocked her. “You can’t just admit everything! What about me? The cops are calling me a joint tortfeasor, the court’s trying to hold me liable, I lost my job, my accounts got banned, you promised you’d protect me!”

Dominic raised his head and looked at her. His eyes were hollow and far away. “Protect you?”

He let out something that might have been a laugh. Cold as a blade.

“You told me she was faking. You got on the phone with 911 and told them not to send help. You stole her mother’s bracelet and took it to a pawn shop. You stood in her hospital room and threw

her dead baby in her face.”

“Tessa, the biggest mistake of my whole life was ever believing you.”

Tessa’s expression twisted. She shrieked, “Don’t you dare pin all of this on me! You’re the one who said to lock her in! You’re the one who told the shift she always calls in fake reports! I just went along with what you already set up!”

The words landed like a detonation.

Every cop in earshot turned toward her.

Tessa registered what she’d just said. Her face went white,

“Ms. Fairchild. Everything you just said is on record. You’re coming back with us for

supplemental questioning.”

“No! I didn’t! I wasn’t…”

They pulled her away still thrashing, mascara streaked, voice cracking into a wail. “Dom! Help me! Please!”

Dominic didn’t move.

I watched her disappear, then turned and walked toward the car.

Behind me, his voice, scraped raw. “Willa.”

I stopped. Didn’t look back.

“I’m sorry,” he said, barely above a whisper.

My voice came out flat. “Keep it.”

I got in the car and didn’t look back.