The Wife Isn't Me novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Indictment
Edward looked at the envelope in her hand.
He didn't take it.
So she tucked it into the breast pocket of his tuxedo, neatly, behind his silk square.
"Served," she said. "In front of witnesses."
There were about thirty of them by then, in gowns, holding champagne in the hallway.
Edward got into the elevator alone.
Nobody got in with him.
At 12:01 on Sunday morning, Andrew's license was suspended.
He spent the next eleven days not being a doctor.
He couldn't attend a birth, so he did everything else.
He repainted the birth room. He took the cow poster down, cleaned it, and put it back up exactly where it was.
He tried to make spaghetti again and set off the smoke detector.
The midwives ran the births and called him downstairs to "consult" on things that didn't need consulting, so he'd feel useful.
"You're humoring me," he said.
"Yes," Trish said. "Hand me that blanket."
The board of physicians heard his case on Thursday, August 13, in a conference room in a state building downtown.
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