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Chapter 68
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She saw it on her phone at six forty-five the next morning.She was still in bed, half awake, when the notification came through from a local news app she barely used. She almost ignored it. She turned the screen over, read the headline, and sat up.Top Seattle Gynecologist Accused of Harassment by Colleague.His name. His photo. The one from the hospital website where he was standing in his white coat looking directly at the camera. They had used the professional one, which was somehow worse — it made it look official, verified, factual.She read the article in under two minutes.It had everything. The complaint, the suspension, Claire's account of events, two unnamed sources from inside the hospital confirming the investigation was serious. The language was careful — alleged, accused, under review — but the framing was not careful at all. The framing said guilty.She called George.He picked up on the first ring. He was already awake."I've seen it," he said."How long has it been u
Cruel Love Back in His Hands Chapter 69
Marcus called at eleven in the morning.Kristine was in a meeting. She felt her phone vibrate three times in her pocket — his name, his name again, then a text that said: Out. Now. Urgent.She excused herself.She was in the corridor with the door barely closed behind her before she answered."I have it," Marcus said.She pressed her back against the wall. "Have what?""The footage." His voice was controlled but she could hear something underneath it — the careful energy of a man who had been looking for something for weeks and had just found it. "Hospital security system. The server from the floor where George's office is located. The archive goes back four months.""How did you get access?""I have a contact in the building's facilities management. Someone who owes me a long favour and who is not connected to Nathan Caldwell in any way." A pause. "Kristine. Claire was in George's office alone. I have her on camera."She closed her eyes for one second."Tell me exactly what it shows,
Cruel Love Back in His Hands Chapter 68
She woke before he did.The apartment was grey and quiet, early light coming through the gap in the curtains. She lay still for a moment and listened to him breathe.Then she felt it — the faint tremor in his chest. The kind that happens when someone is holding something very still so it doesn't break.She turned her head.His eyes were open. He was staring at the ceiling. And the expression on his face was not the careful, composed version of George she knew from meetings and lawyers and review panels. It was something stripped back and unguarded, the face underneath all of it, and it stopped her."Hey," she said softly.He didn't answer right away.Then: "I keep thinking about what happens if we lose."She didn't tell him they wouldn't. She didn't reach for something reassuring. She just waited."Not the case," he said. "Not the hospital. I mean—" He stopped. Started again. "I keep thinking about what happens if all of this — the investigation, Nathan, the board — if it goes the wro
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Stop Protecting MeThey stared at the phone for a long moment.George picked it up. He read the message twice. Then he set it face-down on the table."Don't call it," he said.Kristine looked at him. "Why not?""Because we don't know who C is. Because it could be a trap. Because if someone connected to Nathan or Claire is trying to pull us off course right now, this is exactly how they'd do it." He moved to the window again, arms folded. "We have eleven days and Marcus is already close. We don't need an unknown variable.""Or it's someone on the inside who wants out," she said. "Someone who has information we don't have yet.""Or it's bait.""It could be both." She stood. "George, we can't just ignore it.""I'm not ignoring it. I'm telling you to wait."She felt the familiar pressure of it — the wall he built around decisions when he thought the territory was too dangerous for her to enter. She had felt it before. She'd said nothing before.She didn't say nothing this time."You do th
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Nathan came to her office on a Friday afternoon.He knocked twice, which he never did. He stood in the doorway with his jacket open and his expression arranged into something that looked like he'd been thinking carefully before he arrived."Do you have five minutes?" he asked.She gestured to the chair.He sat. He placed his hands on his knees. He was doing the thing he did when he was preparing to be reasonable — the visible settling, the deliberate calm."I've been thinking about George," he said.She kept her face still. "What about him?""He's getting crushed." He said it plainly, like he was stating a weather condition. "Claire's complaint, the suspension, the witnesses — whoever is behind this has resources and he's going up against it with just one private lawyer." He paused. "I want to help."She said nothing."Caldwell Technologies has an entire legal division," he said. "We work with some of the sharpest employment and litigation lawyers in the city. I want to make them avai
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The hospital's formal review panel met on a Wednesday.George had been through reviews before. Every doctor had. Incident reports, quality audits, the routine machinery of institutional oversight. He knew how to sit in those rooms and speak carefully and let the process move.This was different.He sat at the end of a long table across from five people whose job today was to decide whether he was who Claire said he was. His lawyer sat beside him. George had spent three evenings going through every document, every log, every contact record he could produce to place himself elsewhere on the dates Claire had named.He was prepared.What he wasn't prepared for was the chair that stayed empty.Dr. Reeves was supposed to be there. Nineteen years at the hospital. George had referred patients to him, attended his lectures, eaten lunch with him more times than he could count. Reeves had told George's lawyer two days ago that he was willing to appear as a character witness.He had sent a messag
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Kristine jerked her hand away like she'd been burned."Don't.""Don't what? Ask you a simple question?""It's not simple and you know it." She grabbed the box of paper and turned to leave.George stepped in front of the door. "Please. Just answer me. Why did you leave?""Get out of my way.""Not un
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"Come on. Let's get out of here."Nathan's hand was still on Kristine's shoulder, guiding her away from George and down the hallway. She didn't resist. She needed to get away from George, away from this building, away from everything."Where are we going?" she asked as they stepped into the elevato
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Kristine pushed through the glass doors of Caldwell Technologies, her heels clicking against the marble floor. She was early. Good. Maybe she could bury herself in work before anyone noticed she looked like she hadn't slept in days."Kristine!"Or not.Nathan Caldwell was walking toward her from th
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Kristine's phone rang at seven in the morning. She groaned and grabbed it off her nightstand without looking at the screen."Hello?""KRISTINE! Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!"She bolted upright. "Miranda? What's wrong?""What's wrong? WHAT'S WRONG? I just got an email from Professor George sayin
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