Chapter 71

A week after Ruth Collins got the call from the police, she took Victor Knight’s body back to the countryside for cremation. Not long after, Henry Smith showed up at her place, wanting to hand her a large sum of money. She turned him down right away, knowing exactly the kind of shady stuff Victor used to get into. She was scared that money would bring more trouble than good. What she didn’t expect was that, because she hadn’t given birth to a son, her mother-in-law had always looked down on her. Barely half a month after Victor's death, her mother-in-law, worried that the youngest son was about to get married and didn’t want Ruth lounging around at home, twisted the whole thing. She used Henry coming over with money as an excuse, accused Ruth of having an affair, and kicked her out. Thrown out like that with nowhere to go, Ruth remembered Henry had called himself my husband when trying to give her that money. That stuck with her. She had to find me and get the truth. She didn’t know wh