He paused, but Drayco didn’t say anything. “So you’re not going to ask me why I murdered my neighbors? Or why I want to sell out to a big-city developer? Or alibi this or alibi that?”
Drayco looked around the room before he turned his focus on Yaegle. “Is it true you had an affair with Nanette Keys?”
Stunned at first, the man deflated into a lump of misery and put his head in his hands. He said in a soft voice Drayco strained to hear, “You must believe me when I say I loved my wife Tabitha. She was everything to me, and when she died of ovarian cancer ...”
His fingers tightened around his temples. “I made some bad investments. Tabitha understood. But I didn’t want her to understand, I wanted her to hate me and tell me I was a miserable failure. It was a moment of weakness, on both our p
