Chapter 87

Wayne and Miranda took the car back to their original hotel. On the way, Miranda kept trying to muster the courage to come clean. She hoped that if she confessed, she might at least earn a shred of leniency. However, Wayne was busy working on his laptop the entire ride. That was more than enough to extinguish what little courage she had managed to scrape together. "Pack your things. We'll grab dinner before heading to the airport," he said when they arrived at the hotel. "Alright. I'll go get your clothes," she replied. She planned to use his clothes as leverage and trap him long enough to confess everything. "Okay." Miranda stepped into the elevator and pressed the button for her floor. As the doors slowly began to close, she said with a smile, "See you in a bit, Mr. Sunders." Wayne watched her as the doors closed. Something about her smile made it hard to look away. A sudden, irrational thought crept in and made him want to stop the elevator just to see her smile for a little l