Chapter 141

MONIQUEI did not sleep with the conference still in my mouth. I slept with Elise’s sentence.*Congratulations on being visible.*Maxwell had stayed on the outside of the sheet until his breathing evened, then left before dawn for a meeting he claimed was real. I let him. A man who wanted to tell a woman in a corridor that a heartbeat was strong did not need to wake beside the proof.Ross drove me. The bag was in the door pocket again. I did not need it until the elevator at St. Claire, and then only for a minute, over a bin no patient used. Ellie was already in the hall with a file and no comment. She put a cracker on my desk when I sat.“Bad egg,” she said.“Bad egg.”The morning stayed ordinary in the way Reyes liked. Two patients. A note. No Monet on the schedule. I almost believed the look in the corridor had been the end of Elise’s appetite.Janine’s voice on the desk line killed that.“Dr. Sinclair. Miss Monet is in the lobby. No child. She asked for you by name. She said it is

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Chapter 142

MAXWELLElise waited until Ambrose was in the bath.That was new. She had used foyers and car roofs and, yesterday, a lobby. Tonight she used the landing, where the water running behind a door made a three-year-old technically present and practically absent.“You can hear him,” she said. “So I won’t raise my voice. I went to her clinic. I didn’t bring him. I said what a mother is allowed to say in a public hall. She walked upstairs like I was a stain.”I kept my hands in my pockets.“You went to her workplace after counsel told you the boy’s mouth was closed. That’s not concern. That’s a second front.”Elise’s smile did not reach the part of her that had watched me on rugs.“The second front already exists. It has a heartbeat. I didn’t name it downstairs. I’m naming the shape of it to you, where he can’t repeat it. A lobby is not a stair. A stair is not a court. You keep coming here full-hour and going home to a woman who won’t show a room. Tell me which life is the real one, Maxwell,

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