This time, not anger.
Fear.
Vincent removed several printed pages. “Preliminary findings include messages between Mr. Washington, Mrs. Beverly Washington, and Ms. Candace Moore discussing plans to file for divorce after positioning Mrs. Washington as emotionally unstable. There are also references to obtaining access to what Mr. Washington believed were modest savings inherited from Ruth and Thomas Harrison.”
“That’s private,” Darnell snapped.
“It is evidence,” Vincent said.
Candace whispered, “Darnell…”
He turned on her. “Shut up.”
The sharpness of it made her flinch, and for the first time all night Candace looked not powerful, not glamorous, but exposed.
Vincent continued. “There are additional concerns regarding defamatory statements made to Miss Harrison’s former employer. Those will be investigated separately.”
Lenora’s breath caught.
Her hospital.
The job she had loved.
The job she thought she lost because she had somehow become the fragile, unstable woman Darnell told her she was.
