Risen To The Top

CHAPTER 143

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“Aaron, I think we should cancel the dinner tonight,” Rachel said as she stepped out of the shower. Morning sunlight poured through the picture window in their bedroom. Dr. Hoades was shaving in his shorts.

“Can’t do that, Rachel. Dole says we go about our lives just like normal. I go to the office. But you stay here, or if you go back to the house, you get help, or have Lib—”

Dr. Hoades turned and strode across the bedroom, opened up the door to the living room and stepped inside, noting the opened door to the other bedroom. Her bedroom that had not been slept in.

He stormed back into the bathroom. “She didn’t come back last night.”

“No, of course not. She’s with him, like the letter said.”

“The letter said she’d be back later,” Dr. Hoades answered.

“The letter said she was with HIM and I think she’s safer there than over here with us, if you want the truth. Aaron,” she droppe