Madly Yours novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: The Kitchen
"A year ago the doctor got cold feet," the driver said. "Told the old man he wanted out. Said the boy was getting worse, not better, and it scared him."
"So the old man sent me."
"I sat outside the doctor's house at night. I followed his wife to the grocery store."
"I left a photo of her on his windshield. Her in the cereal aisle."
He tipped his head at me.
"Same trick as your window. It works on everybody."
"Then, a week before the wedding, I drove a new bottle down to his office. Didn't open it. Didn't ask."
"The old man said double it. Wedding night."
Behind the glass, something hit the wall.
Once.
I knew without looking that it was Leland's hand.
On Sunday the doctor came at noon with a fresh week of pills, the way he had every Sunday for two years.
We were all in the kitchen when the bell rang.
Gran at the end of the long scarred table, in her pink tracksuit, with her reading glasses on her head.
Me at her right hand, with my phone face down by the butter dish, recording.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of Madly Yours are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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