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 19

The casserole starts showing up the next day.

First, it's Caroline McLaren with chicken divan and a big hug.

Oh, God, this is all just so awful,

she says before tapping the foil covering her glass dish and saying,

And this can't go through a dishwasher. Emily and Campbell are just a couple of hours behind her.

They bring three big paper bags full of things from the

gourmet store in the village, the place that makes the fancy dinners you can pass off as

your own. As I stacked the foil containers in the freezer, Emily and Campbell sit at the island,

sipping the iced coffees they'd brought with them, which is kind of a shame because I already

feel like drinking today. I know they're just dying to ask a thousand questions,

and I could use the fortification.

How's Eddie holding up?

Emily asks when I close the freezer and turn back to them.

Outside, it started to rain,

and I think back to that first day I met Eddie,

the gray skies, the slick roads.

Not great, I reply. I think he's still in shock, really. We all are, Campbell says,

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