Betrayed by My Husband, Taken by His Billionaire Uncle novel · Chapter 9 of 32
Chapter 9: The Other Doctor
"Which doctor?" I said.
Davina smiled at her reflection and fixed one platinum strand.
"You've met him. He has a fish tank in the waiting room." She stepped back as the doors began to close. "Ask him who pays his consulting fees."
Then the doors shut between us, and she was gone.
A fish tank.
I could see it.
Blue, lit from below, with one fat orange fish that swam into the glass over and over while I waited to be told I was broken.
"She's lying," Annabeth said that night, on the floor of the back room, surrounded by finished centerpieces. "She's lying, or she's bored, or she wants you to do something stupid."
"Or he paid him."
"Or he paid him." She chewed on a strand of red curl. "Why would she tell you that?"
"I don't know. Maybe she wants me to do the stupid thing."
"Then let's do it smart." She sat up. "He'll know your face. He won't know mine."
So on Tuesday at two, Annabeth Odom had a new-patient consultation at a small private practice in Ballantyne for "worries about my fertility."
She wore her one cardigan.
She took out her nose stud in the van and handed it to me like a soldier handing over her dog tags.
"How do I look?"
"Like a kindergarten teacher."
"Good. I'm a kindergarten teacher named Annabeth with a sad uterus." She pointed at me. "You're my emotional support friend. Wear the hat."
I wore the hat, a floppy straw thing from the shop's beach-wedding bin, and big sunglasses.
The fish tank was still in the waiting room.
The same fat orange fish bumped the glass.
Annabeth filled out a clipboard and told the receptionist a long, made-up story about her ovaries, with feeling.
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