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Chapter 48: Confrontation

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Tristan's POV

Linda knocked at ten fifteen to tell me my mother was in the building.

I looked up from the patient file I had not been reading and said what, and Linda said your mother is here and she has gone directly to your office corridor and I thought you should know before she arrives rather than after. There was something in Linda's voice that was not quite forewarning and not quite apology but contained elements of both.

I said thank you and Linda left and thirty seconds later the door t
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