Speechless

Chapter 69

Lily wasn't sure how long she sat in the car, staring unseeingly at the damning documents until the words blurred before her disbelieving eyes. It could have been minutes or hours as shock and a bone-deep sense of betrayal coalesced like lead in her veins.

James...her James...a liar. A fraud. A man capable of the kind of corrupt double-dealing she despised at her core. The proof was indisputable, laid out in transaction after transaction, year after year.

How could she reconcile this soulless corporate raider with the loving, honorable husband and father she adored? It was like a cruel funhouse mirror, reflecting back a warped perversion of the life and man she thought she knew.

A shrill ringing startled Lily out of her stupor and with numb fingers, she fumbled her cell phone out to see James' face smiling up at her from the screen - a photo she'd snapped just last week as he'd laughingly rough-housed with Ava.

The easy joy and love captured there, frozen in a moment before