Page 59 of The Devoted Husband

Tonya,

This is letter one of two. If you receive this, it’s because I am dead.

This letter will be the key to your freedom.

Now that I am gone, you can roam the earth again.

I couldn’t stomach the idea of you being happy and free, falling in love with another man like you hadn’t done what you’d done to me. To Dena.

You destroyed us.

For what? Lust? Was what you had for Martin real love? Even if it was, he didn’t love you. If he did, he wouldn’t have chosen Andrea over you. I hope that truth eats at you for the rest of your life.

Dena deserved a better mother than you. I deserved a better wife than you. And you deserve to spend the rest of your days miserable. But at least you’ll be able to be miserable as a free woman.

Call Attorney Robert Hitchum. He has a signed statement and video recording of me admitting to tampering with the brakes on Martin’s car and being responsible for the accident that took their lives. With that, they should release you.

I hate you, and I can guarantee you I died with hate in my heart over what you did.

Jones