Chapter 165

"Because I am! Okay! Because I know him! Linc didn't kill Tyler! If it wasn't suicide, then he had some other dangerous business going on that we we had no idea about." I didn't plan on losing my cool but Ashley is pushing it.

"You were there! I was there too! He ran away! Linc combed the whole city to find him just to assure us of our safety. Just to make sure you felt safe. I can't believe you still insist on this false narrative that Linc was some dangerous corrupt billionaire. You know he is not. But you need something to assuage your guilt about tricking me into Tyler's trap that day. Well, sorry to disappoint you, but my trust in the man I love is intact. He would never betray me the way that bastard did to you." I clamp my mouth shut at the silence on the other end of the phone.

I have said too much. I have breached the sore spot between us since that incident and I have done it in the most unkind way. Ashley takes in a loud ragged breath that I hear on my end of the lin