Chapter 207

I thought even if we couldn’t find the note, Eli Watson wouldn’t be able to run. As long as he pointed the finger at Marilyn Gray telling him to do it, everything would come to light. What I didn’t see coming was that not only did Eli deny ever handing over the note, even Henry Smith backed him up with a false statement. Eli told the cops that he came to see me that day because Henry asked him to. Since Henry was marrying Vera Clark at his mom’s request, and I, as the ex-wife, wasn’t happy about it and kept saying I’d take his only son away—he was just trying to play peacemaker. And Henry? He flat-out confirmed the whole story and added that I’d been mentally stressed out over our missing child and was imagining things. He said I kept suspecting his mom because Simon Gray was her nephew. Without the note, it was just my word against theirs. And the police? They couldn’t make a call either way. When they came back to question me again, I laid everything out, even pointing out the bigges