Welcome to Case Closed.

You're listening to The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins,

narrated by Emily Schaefer, Lauren Fortgang, and Kirby Haybourne.

Let's pick up where we left off last time.

Chapter 34.

I couldn't tell you why I went down to the lake.

Maybe it was because Tripp had stopped by,

asking if I wanted a ride there too, and I hadn't

known Bee had invited him. Tripp and I hadn't been friends or anything, but something about

it, about the girls, women, I heard Jane say, going up there alone, then B texting Tripp to

join them, something about it felt off.

I'd seen the way Tripp had been looking at B lately, with these sad puppy dog eyes.

I told myself it was because Blanche was making it so obvious that she was into me.

He'd transferred affection or some shit. But that didn't mean I had to

like it. So it had bothered me, B. Inviting him, and long after Tripp left, I'd sat there in the

living room, thinking about it, probing it like a sore tooth.

I would B want him there.

She didn't even like Tripp, and this was supposed to be some kind of girl's bonding weekend.

The house is dark and empty when Eddie gets there, or he thinks it's empty. After standing there in the living room, calling out

to someone, he hears a snore from upstairs. Tripp is in the guest room passed out, his mouth open,

his hand hanging off the bed. His snores are deep, congested, his breaths taking a while to come, and something about it

strikes Eddie is weird. Unnatural. But then again, Tripp is a drunk. Maybe this is how they all sound.

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