Chapter 201

Yuna’s mouth twisted into a bitter moue of distaste. “Nothing concrete, not yet,” she admitted. “Just...little things that don’t quite add up. Like the other night - he claimed to be working late on Christmas Eve, but I found his clothes from that evening balled up in the hamper. Clothes that were clearly rumpled, stained with makeup and reeked of female perfume.” Her eyes slid away, jaw tightening perceptibly.

Emmeline felt her heartbeat kick up a notch, recalling all too vividly what had transpired between her and Zavian that fateful night.

Oh god...she was such an idiot! How could she have been so careless, so stupidly reckless? Her palms grew clammy, dread coiling through her gut like a nest of icy serpents.

“Well, it was Christmas Eve,” Minnie piped up, ever the voice of reason and calm logic. “Lots of companies have big parties or gatherings that night, don’t they? Maybe he just got...overly celebratory with some of his coworkers and didn’t want to come home