Call Me By Your Heart novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: The Doctor

Scott's lawyer found him at the bus station at three in the morning.

She called Scott from the curb, and Scott was out of his chair before I understood.

"Reginald's driver bought him a ticket to Florida," Scott said, pulling on his jacket. "The lawyer's investigator got there twenty minutes before the bus."

By six the retired doctor sat at the head of a conference table on the fourth floor of St. Luke's with a paper cup of coffee in both hands.

He was seventy or so, with thin white hair and a tremor he couldn't stop.

I had spent seven years hating a pair of tired eyes, and these were the same.

My knees almost went.

Scott took my elbow.

On the other side of the table sat the lawyer, an assistant county prosecutor in a rumpled suit, and a court reporter with her fingers on her machine.

Marge stood against the wall with her arms crossed, because she had refused to leave.

"State your name for the record," the prosecutor said.

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