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Chapter 57: What She Told Me

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Julian

Camille took the first step before anyone told her to, and that was a mistake.

"I was down here," she said. She stopped at the bottom of the main staircase and turned, one hand pressed flat to the wall. "By the door. I'd come out of the kitchen with the laundry basket. I heard her on the landing, and then I heard her fall."

Dr. Aldous stood at the foot of the stairs with her satchel hanging off one shoulder and her eyes on the landing, twelve steps up. She hadn't written a word since she
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