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Every Venmo transaction to a user named \u201cMaddyG_88\u201d with a winking emoji beside it.<\/div>\n
I flipped to the page in the notebook labeled MADISON in block letters.<\/div>\n
In the living room, I heard Ethan laugh. It was a loud, free sound\u2014the sound of a man who thinks he has escaped a trap.<\/div>\n
\u201cThis room would make a great office for me,\u201d I heard Madison say.<\/div>\n
\u201cDo whatever you want, babe,\u201d Ethan replied.<\/div>\n
Babe. A word he hadn\u2019t used on me in two years.<\/div>\n
I picked up my phone and called my sister, Jenna.<\/div>\n
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