Hunting Down My Mysterious Doctor Wife

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chool felt heavy, thick with the scen

d down her eyelids, and dark, matte lipstick coated her mouth. The mak

Mr. Mortimer Pinsky paced

Her arm muscles tightened,

s gaze hit Eleanora, slid off her like water off

smiled, revealing c

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e left side of the room. It hit Eleanora's desk with

open it. She just stared at

of the dismissal b

ag. She shoved her worn notebook inside, t

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toward th

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inst a water fountain let o

the pocket of her oversized black hoodie. Her fingers fo

r mouth. The artificial sweetness hit her tongue, a

heavy, carved oak

harp and cold. It bit into t

aid phone began to vibrate. It bu

screen glowed with a caller ID:

he lifted the phone to her ear. Her boo

?" she

The words "Philip Sanders," "severe car cras

's jaw w

her mouth. It hit the concrete stairs

r breathless. Her fingers clamped down on the plas

up. She just s

avement. Her lungs burned as she spri

pushed her hips through the metal bar, and threw hersel

head metal pole. Her knuckles turned stark white. He

she burst out of the sub

fall. It soaked through her hoodie

n the familiar t

riveway of the Sanders residence. Their red and b

She shoved the heavy front

the air was warm and sme

held a white lace handkerchief to her face, her shoulders shaking in

em. Her wet boots left dark mud tr

anded. Her voice was raw, s

re were no tears in her eyes. Only

t a clear plastic evidence bag. Inside was Phil

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stepsister. Cornelia was leaning against the banister, the

nora's head. A cold, heavy r

efore she even got the call

You didn't even call me," she said, her v

kerchief onto the cushion. The ma

e open front door. "Philip is gone. I am not feeding a useless

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to the entryway console table

t the door and stepped off the porc

rain washing the black makeup down

led silently down the street. It pulled up right n

's side do

e opened a massive black golf umbrella and stepped forward, h

the dry canopy. Her