Chapter 4
One of the women operating the cameras couldn’t help muttering, “Talk about blinded by love.”
Graham sneered. “Don’t act like this was some grand romance. You were only after my son’s money.”
“You ungrateful little snake. He treated you well.”
Lily blinked. “Mr. Whitmore, do you remember me?”
“My son had women swarming around him. How could I possibly remember you?”
Lily let out a long sigh. “Did you know your son had HIV?”
“Impossible!” Graham slammed his palm onto the table. “My son couldn’t possibly have HIV!”
“Please calm down.” Lily took a report from her bag. “These are my test results. Positive.”
“Ethan was the only man I’d ever slept with. He’s the only person I could have caught it from.”
“So I decided to kill him. To get revenge.”
After receiving her results, Lily went to Ethan and asked to get back together.
She hid her diagnosis and changed her behavior completely, doing everything she could to please him.
Sure enough, she became his “favorite” again.
Men like him loved nothing more than turning a respectable woman into a plaything.
Three months later, Ethan invited Lily to a party aboard a luxury cruise ship. She knew her chance had come.
“I broke the diamond Ethan gave me into pieces. Honestly, I wasn’t even sure it would work.”
The most important security camera happened to be broken. Even fate seemed to be on her side.
Wearing sunglasses and a mask, she carefully avoided the other cameras and slipped a tiny diamond fragment under a leg of Ethan’s chair.
He was certain to sit there. The seats had all been reserved in advance.
“It was my first time doing anything like that. I was pretty nervous.”
Lily bit her lower lip. “Unfortunately, a waiter named Jack Turner spotted me.”
“He asked what I was doing. I nearly died of fright.”
Everyone was watching Lily, but I noticed a strange look in Graham’s eyes.
“Luckily, he was just a waiter trying to make a living. I gave him some money and told him I was planning a surprise for my boyfriend. I asked him to keep it quiet, and he believed me.”
“Wait.” Graham interrupted her. “This waiter helped cause my son’s death too.”
“What was his real name?”
Lily tilted her head. “Jack Turner. He had a cataract in one eye.”
Graham sneered. “So you’re refusing to tell the truth?”
“Oh, sorry.” Lily tapped her forehead. “I got mixed up.”
“Maybe I was thinking of the Jack Turner from twenty years ago.”
“But how did you know I was lying?”
“You knew that Jack Turner, didn’t you?”
“You gave him money. Just like I described.”
“I asked whether you remembered me. I didn’t mean as Ethan’s girlfriend.”
“I meant as the only witness to that murder disguised as an accident twenty years ago. Lucy Bennett.”