Before leaving, he kissed me and whispered, “Poor Audrey. You never saw this coming.” Hours later, he sent me a photo from the airport, convinced he had left me with nothing. I replied with four words that made him call me immediately.
PART 1
At 2:00 in the morning, I lay completely motionless while my husband emptied our safe, convinced that I was fast asleep.
Before leaving, Daniel leaned over me, kissed my forehead, and whispered:
“Poor Audrey. You never saw this coming.”
I waited until I heard the front door click shut. Then I opened my eyes.
Daniel was dead wrong. I had spent three weeks waiting for this exact night.
It had all started a few hours earlier when he came upstairs to our bedroom carrying a cup of tea.
“You look exhausted,” he said gently. “Drink this and get some sleep.”
Daniel never made me tea. He didn’t even know where we kept the teabags.
