“I want you to disappear the same way you made my wife disappear. But unlike you… I won’t be kind.”
By sunrise the next morning, Roger Salvatore was in federal custody.
The scandal tore through West Texas like wildfire.
Valerie came home.
Slowly, painfully, she began to heal.
Matthew slept between us every night for months, afraid to let her out of his sight.
Some nights I still wake up reaching for the woman I thought I lost forever.
And every time, she’s there.
Alive.
Broken.
But mine again.
Because sometimes, the dead come back.
And when they do… they bring truth with them.
The End.