CAMILLE

Doctor George showed up at our doorstep exactly a week after James was discharged from the hospital, and guess what I thought?

What the heck?

Don't get me wrong, I knew a time like this would come, but I had always hoped that at that time, I would be ready and have an upper hand in the way everything unfolds. In this case, I have to be at his mercy, and I wish I had given up the “you need to recover” act I had been playing on James earlier and confided in him instead.

Now I just ...