Officers in tactical vests rushed into the light. Two of them caught Chloe's arms and cuffed her before she could pull the tablet free. The click of the handcuffs carried across the pier.
"What is this? This is a mistake!" she shrieked. "Julian! Tell them! It's her. She's insane! She's jealous!"
Julian came into the light, walked past Chloe without looking at her, and stopped in front of me.
He removed the microphone from my collar, then wrapped his wool coat around my shoulders. It was warm from his body and smelled like our laundry soap.
"You were perfect," he murmured. "You were incredible."
Chloe twisted toward him in the officers' grip, her mouth open.
Julian adjusted the coat at my neck and kept his back to her.
Detective Miller stepped forward, holding up the evidence bag con
