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Оглавление“You need to leave. Now.”
“I can’t just leave you …” he said.
“Why not?” she asked. “You didn’t come here to protect me. You came here to force me to provide you with an alibi. I can’t do that. I can’t perjure myself and swear you never left me that night.”
“I didn’t want you to perjure yourself,” he said. “I wanted you to tell the truth.”
“I have,” she said.
He wished he could be certain that he believed her.
“So why are you still here?” she asked.
He gestured toward her bedroom, to where their daughter lay sleeping. He couldn’t put into words what he already felt for his daughter—the protectiveness, the affection, the devotion …
“Until a few hours ago you didn’t even know she existed,” she reminded him.
“Whose fault was that?” he asked, the question slipping out with his bitterness.
