92. FALLING INTO PLACE

~RUBY

Everything clicked into place for me.

How he always seemed to know when something happened, how he always appeared out of thin air whenever Mr A struck.

It explained how he knew about my allergy.

He must have read about it in the marriage document I exchanged with Ethan.

Oh my goodness.

My knees got weak and could not hold me up any longer, so I slid down the floor, the coolness grounding me a little bit.

Ella was worried, and she stood up from the couch to join me on the floor.

“Baby. What is it again? What did Patrick say?” Her voice was choked with worry and panic, while my mind whirled at the extensiveness of Richard's cruelty.

“Mr. A. Richard is Mr. A,” I managed to whisper, and the tremor of shock that went through Ella reverberated in me.

“How…why…” she wanted to talk, but words eluded her, as they did me.

“God. Richard's scheme was so…” I tried speaking too, but I could not wrap my head around it.

Everything that has been wrong, that ha