“The woman we found chained up in the basement was Stacy Howard,” Hudson says. “You remember who she is?” I nod and push out more tears. “I can’t believe it,” I lie. I can believe it because I’m the one who put her there. In truth, I really had nothing to do with Bob sleeping with Stacy, as much as he wanted to blame that on me. He fell into her web of deceit and blackmail all on his own. But that mistake landed them both in my web, and there can be only one queen. Stacy’s lucky she wasn’t a casualty in this war.
