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Chapters (70)
  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Praise for Caroline Mitchell
  5. Also by Caroline Mitchell
  6. Dedication
  7. Epigraph
  8. Prologue
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  67. Epilogue
  68. Acknowledgements
  69. About Caroline Mitchell
  70. About Embla Books

‘C’mon, dinner!’ Maggie said, ushering Elliott back to his chair. ‘We’ll look at the website after and find out more.’

Elliott sat back down and spread the letter next to his plate so he could read it over again. Marine turtles opened up a whole new world of facts to learn. For the first time that day, he felt happy inside. The scary man with the two faces was gone, for now. It was turning out to be a good day.

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Elsie shifted in her bed. She just couldn’t get comfortable. The mattress was so hard it felt like sitting on a dining table. It was with some pride that the doctors had showed her around their new ‘obesity clinic’. A room with special scales and machinery, and down the corridor, a reinforced bed. It was no coincidence that Irving had funded the new wing. He was pre-empting any bad publicity should their relationship make the press. Now Elsie was their ‘star patient’ and staff were excited to work with her. Things sure had come a long way in the last few years. If she wasn’t so darn worried about her son, she might have felt real hope. It was nothing short of a miracle that she’d survived her tumble down the stairs, let alone come out of it virtually unscathed. She’d had the wind knocked clean out of her and had gained a bump on her head the size of an egg.

Speaking of eggs … Elsie’s stomach rumbled. What she wouldn’t give for a Cadbury’s Creme Egg right now. Her eyes narrowed as she gazed at the pink meal replacement drink which the doctors had offered after advising her about losing weight and meal plans. But she was one of the lucky ones. Her health insurance and this swanky new wing afforded her the best of care. Her mood brightened as she heard the click of heeled shoes in the hall. It was Sarah. Was she here to ask about the so-called Midnight Man? A flutter of fear swept through her. Just when things were working out … She recalled Christian’s face as he found her on the floor. How he’d squeezed her hand before the ambulance took her away. Whatever she’d seen in his room, Christian wasn’t capable of hurting those girls, she was sure of it. From now on, she would be putting him first. She would start by putting Detective Sarah Noble straight. It was time for Elsie to be a proper mother to her son.

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