Condemned by My Sister novel · Chapter 12 of 24

Chapter 12: The Registry Call

Dr. Ellerker came to the house at four o'clock the next afternoon, carrying a cardboard box.

He had been suspended that morning, and he looked like a man who had not slept in three days.

Marianne led him into her study and shut the door.

I stood by the window, in the room where she had been sitting when Corbin fell.

"I brought everything," Dr. Ellerker said, and set the box on her desk.

"My notes, and the original file on your brother."

"And a copy of the recording, so you have two."

"Thank you," Marianne said, in a voice with no thanks in it.

"There's one more thing. It's the thing I should have said at the morgue, but I couldn't."

He took a folded printout from his coat.

"The first afternoon, before Corbin ever came to me, I filed a donor search for Eli."

"It's automatic with his type."

"Then Corbin came, and I couldn't take it back without a record that I'd done it."

Marianne's hands went still on the desk.

"The search went through the national registry. It found a match in two days."

"A match."

"A preliminary one. A perfect one, in fact."

"The registry was to call the donor and ask if she was still willing."

"She?"

"A woman, thirty-three years old."

Marianne said nothing.

Dr. Ellerker unfolded the page and set it in front of her with a hand that shook.

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