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Kaleb

I didn't sleep a wink—I kept on tossing and turning, thinking about Roman, my mother and Marise. By 6 a.m., Ayla and I were outside Marise's ward, waiting for clearance to go in. There was a lot of movement in her room, hospital staff going in and out. I had a lot of questions, and the only person who could give me straight answers was Marise. We hadn't played the CD, not after discovering such a life-changing truth.

"Excuse me," I called to one of the female nurses.

"What's going on? We have been waiting here for minutes to go in, but no one is telling us a thing." I consulted, squinting my brows when the two detectives assigned to her shooting case showed up.

"You can't see her now," she quickly stated, looking at her wristwatch.

"But—"

"She's missing, okay? She was here one minute, and the next her bed was empty, and now there is a search going on for her," she relayed.

"How can a patient left under the hospital's care go missing? Marise was in no condition to walk out of the
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