Chapter 2: Someone Who Knew Everything
**— PART 2 —**
Natalie didn't say a word for the first ten minutes.
She just drove.
Then, quietly: "Did he call again?"
"Seventeen times," I said.
She nodded like that number didn't surprise her at all.
I stared out the window at the dark streets of Boston sliding past.
The navy dress was still on.
I hadn't thought to change.
I just…
left.
My phone buzzed on my lap.
Not Daniel this time.
Claire.
I almost didn't open it.
But I did.
*"He told me you knew and didn't care.
He told me you stopped loving him years ago.
I want you to know — I'm not sorry.
You were already gone."*
My hands went still.
She thought she had won something.
She had no idea what I had already done.
What she didn't know — what Daniel didn't know — was that Rebecca hadn't just advised me to secure documents.
She had filed.
That morning.
9:47 a.m.
While Daniel was at work.
While Claire was sending him messages.
While I was sitting in a lawyer's office in a city neither of them knew I'd visited.
Natalie glanced over.
"You okay?"
I set the phone face-down on my knee.
"I will be."
Then her phone rang through the car speakers.
Unknown number.
She answered.
A woman's voice filled the car — calm, professional.
"Is this Natalie Brennan?
I'm calling regarding Rachel Whitmore.
There's something she needs to know before tomorrow morning."
I sat up straight.
"Who is this?" I asked.
A pause.
"Someone who worked very closely with Daniel.
For a long time."
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