Chapter 4 - The Mistake
"What mistake?" Eleanor, Ethan’s mother, finally whispered. Her disgust toward me had vanished, replaced by a creeping, primal dread. Mark flipped over a photograph I had printed just that morning. It showed Ethan sitting in a dimly lit corner booth of a downtown restaurant, his hand intimately wrapped around the fingers of a blonde woman. But the gasp didn't come from Eleanor. It came from Mark. The woman in the photograph was Mark’s younger sister, Chloe. Claire had discovered the affair six months ago and, instead of telling her husband, used the explosive secret to blackmail Ethan into funding her spiraling online gambling addiction.
