He Asked Me to Die Again, So I Named My Price novel · Chapter 10 of 24

Chapter 10: The File

Calla was waiting in Yvette's room with the lights off.

She sat cross-legged on the bed with a hospital folder open on her knees and her chin set.

"Close the door," she said.

Yvette closed it.

It was three in the morning. Her hair was still damp from the garden, and she had left her shoes in the boathouse.

"Calla, you should be asleep."

"I would like to be. I found this in the discharge box instead." Calla held up a page. "It is a copy of the donor consent. Do you want to guess who signed it?"

Yvette's mouth went dry.

"They blacked out the donor's name on the copy they gave me," Calla said. "But they forgot the signature line. Look at the M."

She held it out.

The M was lopsided, with the first stroke taller than the second.

"Now look at this."

She slid something from under the folder. It was a card from their gin games, with the scores written down the margin in a neat blue column.

The M of Yvette was lopsided in exactly the same way.

"The donor was a woman with no family, young, healthy, and no one to call," Calla said. Her voice was thin. "And you turned up the next morning with a hire date nobody can find."

"Calla."

"My friend Yvette quit the day of my surgery without a word." Her eyes were wet and furious. "And you walked in the next morning with the same name, the same lopsided M, and the same way of holding a spoon backward."

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