His Wife's Replacement and Her Deadly Secret

enter for me. He was my knight in shining armor,

me. Instead, he began grooming a replacement-a young protégé named Ivanna,

ined my life's work at the center he built, calling my proven methods "old paradi

om, drunk and desperate. He tried to kiss me, t

ann

esitate. He took her side, looked at me with

lk in the cold rain, I finally understood. My life had been

eipt showing that the drug that killed my brother was paid for by Ivanna, using Cleve's corpora

pte

ley did when she decided

ater hissing. She lathered the soap up to her elbows, the way she had t

tire worth. They had pieced together nerves finer

y were

n able to save

arch center hummed around her. Her research cente

her the day after her family's company went bankrupt, a knight in a bes

mory was the found

li

ant feeling. Nothing could touch the coldness th

dy, the grief raw in her throat. "He was ge

ecil. It was bound to happen." His voice was calm, reas

ice he used when h

ted to be a doctor just like her. The girl who now looked so much like a younger, sof

leve handed Ivanna a key. The key to their lake h

had explained later, his eyes not qui

rument cabinet. The woman looking back was a ghost. Dr. Farley,

ircle of platinum. It felt less like a symbol of

ts were off, the city glowing through the floor-to-cei

h for painless w

sachusetts Board o

t an application for medical license reci

have a plausible lie ready: it was for

rst step. Not

disap