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CHAPTER 99

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DARLENE BERNARDO

The noise of the siren faded around us as I stood in silence with my husband, what felt like minutes since I’d told him his mother had been poisoned.

I watched emotions play across his face, the thick black of his eyebrows scrunching together before his lips twitched violently and he let out a loud, reverberating laugh, keeping over and gripping his stomach like he had been kicked in the shin.

What the hell was so funny? I hadn't wanted to admit it, but something about the way he was behaving seemed different.

It was almost as though he was disconnected, in a different reality, one where I wasn't his wife.

Instead, a stranger who had just told him I had a pet fish who I fancied was Whitney Houston reincarnated.

“My god Darlene! Have you gone mad?” He boomed, and I felt the whip of shame land heavily in the middle of my back as I turned to see a few heads angled our way, their searching eyes snapping away quickly when they saw I had caught them looking, but the tilt of
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