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She can’t believe Karen wouldn’t want to see her, just for a minute.
They have to be real close if this is the case
Karen’s grateful to see Brigid, her best friend.
Ok confirmed
He’d better clean up. He can’t have Karen coming home to a messy house—she would hate that.
Wow a king
He searches for the rubber gloves that Karen uses to wash the dishes but can’t find them.
Noted
don’t think you need to mention it to my husband.” He turns and looks at her. Their eyes lock for a moment.
Nooooted, she might be playing dumb
She remembers how frightened she’d been. All those times she’d come home and found things slightly out of place, subtle signs that someone had been going through her things. It had scared her. And Tom knew nothing about it.
WHAT
It’s almost like it used to be. But it’s nothing like it used to be.
Tea
Chapter Ten
Prediction: her kitchen gloves will ve found w the dead body.
She’ll tell them that she remembers nothing. After all, it’s the truth. There’s
I dont believe her anymore
She says, “I still don’t see what that has to do with me. I never had any pink gloves.”
Insane thing to say after just admitting to asking ur husband where ur pink gloves were lmao
maybe just inside on the kitchen table. . . .
Is she the person karen is noticing moving thubgs ibth house?
“So why were you driving around for an hour that night?” “Why did you drive your car into a pole?” he flashes back.
LMFAOOO
He was supposed to meet Brigid that night, at 8:30, at their spot by the river, at that quiet place between downtown and the suburbs, where the path along the river is less crowded, and trees provide a bit of privacy. It’s where they used to sometimes meet, when they were having their short, misguided, and messy affair.
MY JAW JUST HIT THE FLOOR W A THUMP
But when she opened her underwear drawer it was untidy, as if someone had rummaged through her panties and bras. She knew that someone had.
Is it brigid?
She never told Tom.
But why
“But—Brigid called me that day, the day of the accident, and asked me to meet her that evening. She wanted to talk to me about something. She said it was important.”
Im very suspicious of brigid
He hugs her close to him so he doesn’t have to look in her eyes, and whispers, “Don’t run. Stay and face this. Don’t leave me.”
10 points to tom! We love tom (ignoring the brigid indescretion for rn)
She thinks a lot about Tom and Karen, about where they are and what they’re doing, about their life together. It’s like she’s caught up in a particularly good television show and can’t wait to see what happens next.
UM?
Things should be more equal between friends, Brigid believes, and as far as she’s concerned, Karen hasn’t done as good a job at their friendship as she could have. Brigid has worked very hard at this friendship.
Shes crazy
The right woman has eluded him all these years. Perhaps it’s because of the job. Maybe he will still meet her, someday. And when he does, he tells himself, taking another look at the photo of Georgina Traynor, he’ll do a thorough background check on her himself.
I think thats an abuse of power brother
She scans the vanity quickly, trying to take in details. It’s her perfume. Someone has taken the stopper off her perfume. She knows it wasn’t her.
Has to be mf brigid
“Okay, calm down,” Tom says.
Rolled my eyes sooo hard
He leaves, and she locks the bathroom door behind him.
Hi relationship wedge
Every now and then she sniffs delicately at her wrist. She will stay up until Tom and Karen go to bed, until they are safely tucked in and all their lights are out.
I mfing knew it
She’s really never stopped wanting Tom. It’s just a question of what she’s willing to do to get him back.
I bet shes framing karen
She knows Karen’s in deep trouble. Maybe soon the police will arrest her for murder.
Its feeling like a frame job
She’s much tougher, much harder, and much more damaged than he ever suspected.
Hate that he just called her damaged
Would he have been man enough to fall in love with a woman with her kind of baggage? Or would he have stayed the hell away?
U sir just lost all ur points and then some. Ur in the negatives now
He likes to think he would have fallen in love with her just the same, and taken her safely away from all that.
Ok u get back 4 points
Would she have gone to bed with him that night and lain beside him, knowing that she’d shot a man dead—with him never being any the wiser? Because Tom doesn’t believe that she wasn’t capable of killing her former husband; he’s sure now, after that outburst in the bathroom, that she is capable of it.
God what a loser. Yelling doesnt equal murder capabilities
She watched them bring Karen out of the house in handcuffs. She could hardly contain her satisfaction.
Youve got too much free time for fun you like to pray for my demise
It must be the alcohol. His defenses are down. “I think you should go. Please.” Tom says, looking at the floor. He wants her to leave. “You need to hear this,” she insists.
He is gonnacheat on her
“So I got in my car and I followed her.”
This girl did the murdering had to. She prolly was how robert found karen in the first place
“I was almost afraid to get out of the car. But I was so worried about Karen. I saw her go behind a boarded-up restaurant. I got out of the car and walked closer. And then I heard shots. Three gunshots.” She closes her eyes briefly, opens them again. “I was petrified. It sounded like they came from inside the restaurant. Then I saw Karen come bolting out of there and hightail it for her car. She was wearing these pink rubber gloves, which I thought was odd. She tore them off before she got in the car. I stood there in the dark, against the building—I’m sure she didn’t see me—and watched her
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LIAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR i dont believe u for a second. Pls dont take the stand
“It was horrible. He’d been shot in the face, and the chest.”
She saw this in the media
“Tom, she shot him. She killed that man.” “No she didn’t,” Tom says.
YEA TOM. U have 3 new points!
She says, “No, of course not. Karen’s my friend.” And she kisses him deeply. He reaches for her and succumbs helplessly to the comfort she’s offering.
Back to negative points u weak weak boy
And if someone else has to suffer for her to be happy, if someone else has to go to jail for the rest of her life—well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
Man she killed that man
And then she’d taken him by the hand and led him upstairs to the bedroom, where they made love in Karen and Tom’s bed. The same bed she and Tom used to make love in, before Karen moved in. That interloping bitch.
I hate them both
But getting rid of Brigid—that might not be so simple.
Double homicide
He’s overwhelmed with guilt and shame for what he’s done with Brigid, while Karen was in jail.
Good
He forgives her—if only she will tell him the truth.
Will she foegive u cheater?
This afternoon, she had her hair cut short, in the same pixie style that Karen wears. And she had a mani-pedi. Brigid knows that Karen regularly treats herself to mani-pedis.
Shes trying to be karen so bad
He won’t dare turn her away.
Foreshadowing
