The Wife He Tried To Erase

ents, the doorbell rang. Mark answered it, an

I just couldn't

Kevin's mother. She was perfectly dressed, her blonde hair immacula

. "You poor thing. I saw that horrible video.

arm. "Sarah, maybe th

re." She stepped past him and into the house as if she already owned

His face lit up in a way I had never seen.

missed you so much." She shot me a

o be a buffer between us. "Mom, be nice," Kevin

ow," Mark added, looking at me

eer. "Fragile? She looks it. I have to say, Evelyn, for a doctor, you really didn't p

fists at my sides, digging my nails into my palms.

eave, Sarah," I said, m

mfortable." She ran a hand over a vase on the mantelpie

ans. Blueprints for a renovation of our master bathroom. And a receipt from the designer. My blood ran cold when I saw the date on it. It was from tw

g her back long before he ha

ng, holding the receipt in m

k confused. "Oh, that. I was... planning

going to redo the whole room for

iversary isn't for six months," I said flatly.

, their masks of innoc

e with a folder. "Evelyn, I

r and sister, had been in a terrible accident. They both needed kidney transplants to survive. The donor was a brain-dead patien

wing me this?" I

attacked you," Mark said calmly. "He was shot during

at him, h

f formal approval. They've asked me, as the lead officer on your case, to find a solution. Technically, as t

wrong.

ah's cousin is a major donor to that hospital. If you sign this, and we present it as our family's compassionate g

s, as a tool for social climbing. To use my name, my p

hen he saw my hesitation. "And he's a monster who deserves to di

Maya. And then I looked at the attached photo of the donor, the man w

cared, and I had given them lollipops and made them laugh. The man had been grateful. He was a single father, trying his best. His name was Daniel. The man in the photo

g with a clarity that surpris

two random kids. They're his children. You want me to sign away their father

I said, my voice shaking with rage. "You are pathetic."

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