His First Love, My Last Goodbye novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Vote
He asked at nine on Thursday morning, which was the hour she felt best.
Esme sat in the chair by her window with a blanket on her knees and a cup of ginger tea going cold.
Matthias stood in the open doorway of room six and did not come in.
He wore a gray Harbor House sweatshirt the aide had lent him, and it stopped above his wrists.
"I have something to say," he said. "You may throw me out for it."
"Then say it."
"Rule two says I can't offer you anything, so I'm not offering. I'm telling you."
"Tell me."
"The surgeon on the panel that Tuesday was me."
She did not move.
She had known the shape of that sentence since Ezra's voice cracked in the cab.
Somebody had read her scans and written futile.
A stranger she could have lived with.
"I scored your file," Matthias said. "I did not know it was yours."
The sea moved slow and gray behind the glass.
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