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.

Part 13, Jane. Chapter 37

I haven't been in a hospital since I was 15, when I broke my elbow trying to impress a guy on a skateboard.

I'd hated the experience then and it's not my favorite now.

I'm supposed to go home tomorrow, but where home is, I have no idea.

The house in Thornfield Estates is gone, burned to the ground, and the new life I had tried

to build is gone with it. It probably says something about me that this is the part I'm fixated

on, not the part where the man I was engaged to had locked his wife in a panic room for months.

Weirdly, in a way, that part of the story was almost a relief. Everything

that hadn't quite added up. Everything that had triggered my fight or flight instincts made

sense now. Everything was clear. And I know that for the rest of my life, I'll see the look on

B's face as she charged up the stairs

to save Eddie. No matter what I felt for him, it was never that. It never could have been that.

Just like Eddie never could have loved me like he clearly loved B. When B had opened the

panic room door,

there'd been a whooshing sound, crackling,

a blaze of heat that had sent me stumbling back,

and instinct kicked in.

I ran, down the stairs, out the door,

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