We Secretly Boarded My Pilot Husband’s Flight to Surprise Him. His Announcement at Thirty Thousand Feet Exposed a Secret That Had Been Waiting Seven Years to Destroy Us.

Then made everyone involved sign confidentiality agreements.

I felt nauseated.

“They knew?”

“They suspected.”

“And they said nothing?”

“Yes.”

I looked through the pages.

Then Rachel slid one more document across the table.

“This is why Darius paid Chase.”

My eyes moved to the email header.

Recipient:

DARIUS.REED.

Date:

Six weeks before the flight.

Attachment:

GREENHAVEN INTERNAL MEMO.

I stared at it.

“No.”

Rachel said nothing.

“He knew?”

“Yes.”

“No.

Simone contacted him eleven weeks before the flight.”

“Correct.”

“Then six weeks before the flight, he already had this?”

“Yes.”

I looked at the memo again.

“He knew Simone might have caused it.”

“Yes.”

The room became strangely quiet.

“And he didn’t tell me.”

“No.”

“He kept meeting her.”

“Yes.”

“He introduced her publicly on his airplane.”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

Rachel’s eyes hardened.

“That’s what we need him to answer.”

Darius denied everything at first.

Then Rachel showed him the email.