Chapter 9 - The Truth Eleanor Couldn't UnseeEleanor looked at Richard.
“You planned everything.”
Richard's expression became strangely calm.
“No.”
“You knew the chandelier would fall.”
“No.”
“You bought the insurance policy.”
His eyes changed.
That was enough.
Eleanor's heart broke.
“You did.”
Richard said nothing.
She remembered the paperwork.
The strange questions.
The insistence that she sign documents without reading every page.
The sudden increase in his affection six months earlier.
The expensive jewelry.
The weekend trip.
The promises.
All of it had been preparation.
He hadn't become distant because he stopped loving her.
He had become distant because he had already decided she would not be alive much longer.
Eleanor felt something inside her change.
Fear was still there.
But beneath it was something stronger.
Clarity.
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“You were going to kill me.”
Richard's silence became an answer.
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