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Caroline's grasp, my
tiny, triumphant smile played on her lips before she expertly repla
spital room opened and a doct
act with me and rushed to him. "Doc
ional sympathy. "Mr. Harrison is stable. He sustained a blow to the head, and while there
course. How predictable. Ho
ontinued. "You can go in, but
ctor and into the room. They physically shouldered me
closing around the phone in my pocket. Th
wrapped around his head, a perfect prop. His face was pale, h
hand, her face a mask of tear-streaked devotion
side, stroking his hair. "
of faint, groggy recognition on his face. Then, his
m seemed to ho
splay of confusion. He looked at me as if I were a co
as quiet, but it cut throug
who are you? D
augh out loud. The anger that had been simmering inside
e, panicked eyes. "Doctor, you see? He doesn't
ssic presentation of post-traumatic selective amnesia," he announced with grave authority. "It
air, thick and poisonous. *I
a tissue, her gaze on me filled
for doctor-had created a perfect, airtight narrative. They were casti
m as he held Jessica's hand, as he soaked up his
en I f
s than half a second long. A flash of calculation. Of relief. It was the look of
uffering fr
king it.
st ember of the woman who had loved him, was e
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