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Monk and Sharona arrived at Catherine Sluvay's house along with the San Francisco police department and Mark Sluvay.

"What's going on?" Catherine asked.

"You're under arrest Mrs. Sluvay," the Captain said.

"For what?" she asked innocently.

"I think you know what," Monk said. "Here's what happened. You knew that Niles was inheriting the multi-billion dollar empire that Sam Sluvay had built. You also knew that if he was unable to takeover, then the business would go to your husband, Julian. But that wasn't what made you kill Niles, was it. He had found out that you and Mark were having an affair. He called and asked you if you would come to dinner, alone. You weren't close with Niles, so you suspected that he had found out about the affair, and was going to confront you. That night, you told everyone that you were going to your book club meeting, and you left early, but the members of the club don't recall you arriving until an hour after the meeting had started. You went to Niles' house, he threatened to tell Julian, and you went into the kitchen when you thought nobody was around, and poisoned his dinner. The dinners had already been dished out, because the cook had left for the evening, or at least you thought she had. I had a talk with the cook. It turns out that she had left her car keys in the house, and when she went to retrieve them, she saw you fiddling around with the food. She didn't think anything of it at the time, so she left without saying anything. Then the maid unknowingly served Niles the poisoned dish, and went home. You watched as Niles started slipping into unconsciousness, and made sure he was so weak he couldn't fight you off when you strangled him with Julian's phone cord. You then dragged him into the study, so that no one would even think about the possibility that he had been poisoned before he was strangled."

"That's preposterous!" Mark screamed.

"Is it?" Monk asked. "It turns out that Catherine signed a prenuptial agreement when she married Julian. If she commits adultery then she gets nothing when they get divorced. She killed Niles, and made it look like Julian did it because he had the biggest motive, and this way she has a good reason to divorce Julian without him ever knowing about the affair. Her ultimate plan was to divorce Julian, get her half of the money from their marriage, and marry you, after you become a multi-billionaire. It was a brilliant plan, really. The only problem was, she needed someone to find the body. Niles gave his staff every Sunday off, so there would be no one for at least a day. Catherine took a recording of Niles asking Julian to breakfast, as he often did since they were working on a project together, cut out Julian's voice, and played it over the phone so that you would think Niles was asking you to breakfast. That's why you couldn't get any information out of him as to why he wanted you to come over, he just kept saying the same thing."

Catherine's held together demeanor turned into panic in one instant. "I'm sorry Mark! I did it for you! I did it for us!" Then in one last miserable attempt to explain herself she said, "I did it so we could finally be together…forever." Disher slapped a pair of handcuffs on her and assisted her into the police car.

Monk looked over at Sharona, and was rewarded with a proud smile that was just for him. He smiled back, and for that one small moment, he was totally and utterly happy.

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Monk and Sharona were putting away groceries in his kitchen. "So, how are you and Randy Disher doing?" Monk asked, trying to sound like he was just making small talk.

"Uh…(sigh) we decided to break up."

"Oh, really?" Monk said. He couldn't keep the relief out of his voice, no matter how hard he tried. Unconsciously, his whole body stood up straighter and his face lit up a little. "Why did you break up?"

"I don't know. It just didn't feel right. It was nice for a while, but I just couldn't see a real future with him."

"That's…That's too bad," Monk said, trying to hide his smile.

"Yeah, I can see you're real broken up about it," Sharona said with a sarcastic tone. She sighed, and looked out the window, deep in thought. Monk stood for a moment and watched her. Then she turned and looked at him. "I don't know if I'll ever find the right guy."

Monk looked into her eyes, hesitated for a moment, then said, "Maybe…maybe you already have found him, you just don't know it yet."

Sharona gave him a smile and said, "Yeah, maybe."

THE END