Chapter 26

“So was that why you killed him?” Emily asked the woman seated before her looking straight into her eyes, without blinking anticipating her reply and her heart beating with anxiety. But Alyssa smiled, a kind of smile that bore no emotions even though it reached her eyes.

“I didn’t kill him Emily, at least not in the way you think”

“Then how?” Emily pressed.

“He killed himself, but I made him do it”

Emily paused, the air suddenly thick

“How?”

“I faked my death and ran away making it look like he did it, it was classic Gone Girl all over again, almost the same thing” Alyssa explained, nostalgic look on her face that looked almost painful but still contained elements of pride in them. Emily knew the book, read it even so it wasn’t hard to picture the scenario. A woman faking her death to punish her husband for infidelity except in her mother’s case, it went exactly too far.

“I wasn’t expecting him to kill himself really” Alyssa went on “I just needed enough time to leave the country so