suitcase behind her, Jude's assistant, Travis Shaw, w

ected himself hastily. "The car is

prisingly steady. "That won't be nec

aff, of Jude who had just ended his call, she opened a legal services webs

What are you doing? I g

she reached the section on division of assets, she checked

She turned the screen toward Jude, the brigh

ringing in the cavernous entryway. "Your money,

r of disbelief in his eyes. He had expected tears, p

contemptuous smile. She thought Joslyn was pu

isha, and her own mouth cu

hot could hear her clearly. "Ms. Franklin, congratulatio

s smil

son, Leo, had been diagnosed with acute leukemia and needed an emergency bone marrow

hite as a sheet. "Y

"A single mother with a sick child. It must be so difficult. But looking at him now..." She let the sentence hang

staff. Their eyes, once filled with

om Joslyn to a panicked Kisha, a d

esperation. "Jude, don't listen to her! She's jus

the performance. She had planted

lders. She turned to leave, but some

lementine. She had placed it on Joslyn's wrist on her wed

a moment's hesitation, she slid the

front of him. She took his hand, uncurled hi

d against his. He fl

r voice soft but hea

ll Clementine I'm sorry. I ca

ense it made him gasp. He felt an overwhelming urge to grab

ody would

pulled up

glance, and got into the car. She disappeared from his

hed behind his eyes-Joslyn laughing, sunlight catching the green of the bracelet on her wrist. The memory vanished as