Chapter 23

“And that you've come back.”

In front of the police, Grégoire swore he had never seen her. This morning, photos in hand, he changed his story for the psychiatrist: the woman ringing his doorbell is Clémence, his first wife, who drowned at Quiberon in 2018 and has come

Now you know that the woman in the cardigan is Clémence, who drowned on the Côte Sauvage at Quiberon in 2018, that Grégoire let her in on the morning of 17 October, in tears, and that she texted Nadia from Nadia's own number to lure her to the playground. But how does a dead woman step into a living woman's life? Why would a husband rather have his wife locked up under another woman's name? What happened on the towpath before dawn on 17 October? And Ambre, who said “I've never seen her before”, will she go on lying for her mother? The rest of the story is for subscribers.

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