The Missing Wife's Return
ied for five yea
ts, a Chicago love st
ate developer, ch
chool teacher, conten
ichael wanted a f
ift, quick
high-profile doctor at a p
congratulations
expectin
over the moo
yes shining with a joy
our perfect f
n Lake Forest was a
ead through me, a s
, a tiny, nagging diss
e nursery was almost r
inic for a routine check-u
e early, the wait
door was sl
Michael's and
her now," Michael's
ntial for high-risk
r. Peterson had always said th
next word
ers, schedule my wife's
Who was
on sounded
nth apart, they won't look like t
ichael's voice, devoid
e raised at the family estate in Lake
flew to
llness retreats to keep her occupied,
orld
planning to steal another woman
, to dis
d against my rib
love I felt – it all cur
way slowly
ted world of our "perf
xed with a dee
o this to me,
d. Not
chilling certainty, I h
y, that I could never look a
ust a crack,
l gone, replaced by a resolv
e a pawn in h
protect
protec