He Missed the Delivery Room. I Married His Enemy Instead. novel · Chapter 31 of 32
Chapter 31: Groundbreaking
"Put it on," I said. "Before I change my mind and make you kneel there all morning."
He put it on.
It went over the knuckle, except this time his hand was shaking and mine wasn't.
Downstairs, through the floor, Grandda started singing.
We set the date for the second Saturday in January.
The groundbreaking for the new trauma wing was that morning, on the dock parcel.
"Two birds," said my charge nurse. "One shovel."
Gwyneth was sentenced the Thursday before.
I was in the courtroom.
So was Conall, in the second row, in a gray suit, with two scars under his shirt.
Gwyneth wore navy.
She'd pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy, to keep the cop's testimony out of a trial.
Her smartwatch was gone.
They'd taken it at intake.
She kept touching her bare left wrist anyway, all through the judge's remarks.
"Ms. Harding," the judge said, "you paid a man to shoot another man for a parcel of land, and then you made a habit of pretending to be the patient."
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