#Chapter 178 – Jailbreak

Emma looks at Delia nervously as they pull up to the road block near her father’s house. “Something’s going on,” she murmurs as a Beta raises his hand, requiring her to stop the car. “Um,” Delia says, biting her lip and considering. “Is there any reason that they should like…suspect us? That we should turn around now?” Emma shakes her head slowly. “I mean…unless Joyce told someone he was meeting you? But he’s always so discreet with his affairs.” She should know. In their six years of marriage, Joyce had had nearly forty affairs with women, all of which Emma knew about due to the same private investigator who had found Evelyn. She kept the evidence for a rainy day, packed into a storage unit across town. Every month, if the investigator had more information for her, she added it to the binder. They were casual affairs mostly, none of them deeply emotional – girlfriends who lasted a few weeks and months. His relationships with sex workers lasted longer, likely because he could cont