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“And after they left, you tried to find hiive you their license plate You tracked her down”
“I got her name,” Adam said “That was all”
“So what did the guy say to you at the Aer?”
“He told nancy”
Johanna blinked twice “Coain?”
Adam told her the story Once he opened his mouth, it all just spilled out of him When he was finished, Johanna asked hi
“Do you think it’s true? Do you think she faked the pregnancy?”
“Yes”
Just like that No hesitation Not anyht froer first told hiether before he could voice it
“Why?” Johanna asked
“Why do I think it’s true?”
“No, why do you think she’d do so like that?”
“Because I made her feel insecure”
She nodded “That Sally Perryman woman?”
“Mostly, I guess Corinne and I had grown distant She feared losingall this It doesn’t matter”
“Actually, it ht”
“How?”
“Hu on in your life when she went to that pregnancy-faking website?”
Adam couldn’t see the point, but he also saw no reason not to tell her “Like I said, ere growing apart It’s an old story, isn’t it? We beca to do the food shopping, as going to do the dishes, as going to pay the bills Ithrough a uess”
“You felt unappreciated?”
“I felt, I don’t know, I felt like I wasn’t a real man anymore I kno that sounds I was a provider and a father”
Johanna Griffin nodded “And suddenly there’s this Sally Perry you all kinds of attention”
“Not suddenly, but yeah, I start working on this great case with Sally, and she’s beautiful and passionate and she looks at et how stupid it all sounds”
“Normal,” Johanna said “Not stupid”
Ada him “Anyway, I think Corinne orried I’d leave I didn’t see it at the tiuess, or maybe I didn’t care, I don’t know But she had this tracker on my iPhone”
“The one that showed you she was in Pittsburgh?”
“Right”
“And you didn’t know about it?”
He shook his head “Not until Thomas showed me”
“Wow” Johanna shook her head “So your as spying on you?”
“I don’t know,late a bunch of times Maybe she checked that tracker app and saas at Sally’s more than I should have been”
“You didn’t tell her where you were?”
He shook his head “It was just work”
“So why not tell her?”
“Because, ironically enough, I didn’t want her to worry I kne she’d react OrWe could have stayed in the office, but I liked being at her house”
“And Corinne found out”
“Yes”
“But nothing happened between you and Sally Perryman?”