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After the usual greetings, Freya got straight to the point. “Yesterday at Lawrence's, did you only pick up the
cufflink?”
Gerard was alert. Why was she asking that all of a sudden? Had she figured something out? What should he do?
What could he say?
“Yes,” he answered, following his boss’s lead. “Why do you ask?”
“How long were you there?” she continued.
“A few hours,” Gerard replied, knowing full well Freya could dig up the truth if she wanted to. “Dr. Hayes was
having lunch when we got there, so we joined him. Then he took my boss inside. | don’t know what they did.”
“You didn’t go in?”
“Dr. Hayes toldto wait outside.” That was the answer he gave.
And it confirmed Freya's hunch—Lawrence had definitely done something with Kristian. Retrieving a cufflink
didn’t require excluding Gerard. Kristian’s ward wasn’t sfortress, so asking Gerard to stay out was strange.
“Ms. Briggs, is something wrong?” Gerard asked nervously, his heart hammering.
“Nothing,” Freya replied, already preparing to confront Lawrence. “Kristian has a fever, and I'm trying to figure
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Gerard blinked. “What?”
A fever? There was no way Kristian had caught a chill yesterday. How had this happened?
Then, it suddenly hit him.
Last night, when he was on the phone with Kristian, he had faintly heard water running in the background. Could
Kristian have been taking a cold bath at that hour? That had to be it. Given Kristian’s unpredictable moods lately,
it was plausible.
“How much did Kristian eat at Lawrence’s?” Ellis asked abruptly.
Gerard cut himself off mid-sentence. His pulse spiked.
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That was close!
He'd almost said “a large serving”.
“A little,” he corrected quickly. “He didn’t have much appetite. Seemed out of it the whole time.”
Ellis’s face darkened. That hesitation earlier made Gerard’s words ring false.
If Kristian had eaten so little, there wouldn't have been that pause. Freya noticed it too. After a beat, she asked,
“Did Kristian tell you to say that?”
Gerard froze, his nerves fraying. Had she caught on?
Freya recalled Kristian crouching last night, pleading with Ellis not to hurt him. A suspicion rose, and she said to
Gerard, “I know Kristian’s your boss, and even now, you still treat him with respect, despite what's happened to
him. Letask you something. If he didn’t want you to tellsomething, you can stay quiet. You can just
listen to me. But if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.” She added with quiet conviction.
Gerard surrendered. “Go ahead.”
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