Chapter 40

I broke. Something deep inside me broke. It felt like my soul was ripped from my body; like I did not have all enough time to process what I had just heard. It had to be a lie. She had to be joking or pranking me.

“Where is Sammy, mom?” I asked her in a breathy voice.

She was crying and it made me annoyed. “You need to come over before the police take the body away. We’re at the mansion. It happened at the mansion.”

“Okay.” I sniffled as tears escaped my eyes freely. “Know that if I meet you there, I will kill you with my bare hands.”

‘Look, Heather. I didn’t do anything. I swear to you!”

I dropped the call and placed the phone in my purse. I looked at Gabe and caught him staring at me. He did not even flinch, but I saw that his eyes were filled with an emotion that I could not decipher. Maybe sadness, maybe pity. But it was clear that he felt sorry for me.

“Let’s head home, I will deal with the lawyers later,” I told him and he nodded. He led the way back to the car and wh