Her Last Mistake by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2022-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Rachel quickly discovered that Dr. Coyne’s staff wasn’t quite as agitated about being questioned by the FBI as he assumed they might be. In fact, the first nurse they spoke with, a forty-two-year-old named Ava who had worked with Coyne for nine years, seemed almost flattered that they’d even want her opinion. It almost seemed as if she didn’t quite fully understand that they were asking her questions to see if she’d played a hand in the killer getting information about patients.

“Have you ever, at any time during your career here, had any sort of relationship with a patient outside of work?” Rachel asked roughly three minutes into their conversation with her.

Ava thought deeply about this, biting at her bottom lip. “No. No one other than my brother, of course. He came in for sleep apnea treatment last year.”

“And have you ever interacted with patients that you would consider hostile or maybe angry at a diagnosis Dr. Coyne had given them?”

Again, she thought before answering, as if making sure to get the answer exactly right. Rachel didn’t get the feeling that she was trying to lie, but instead trying to really impress them with her thoroughness. “I wouldn’t say hostile. However, in this line of work, you do tend to work with some very tired and irritable people.”

They questioned Ava for ten more minutes, asking about how the company kept and filed their records—how prescriptions were sent into pharmacies and specialists. All of the answers seemed to check out and even though Rachel felt certain Ava was in no way a criminal or even had a bone worthy of ill intent in her body, she was fine sending the woman back to work knowing that they could simply run a background check on her if need be.

She allowed Jack to handle the bulk of the next interview, this time with a five-year employee by the name of Bennet. Bennet wore a pair of black-framed glasses and his hair was styled in a way that made him look roughly ten years younger than his actual age of thirty-eight.

“Have you ever been involved in any illegal activity?” Jack asked him.

Bennet frowned and nodded. “Yeah. I got a DUI when I was twenty-three. Went a year and a half not being able to drive.”

“And that’s it?”

“Yeah.”

“Do you enjoy your work here?”

“I do. People think the subject of sleep is boring, you know? But the people I meet and some of the stories I hear…it’s sort of fascinating.”

“What kind of stories?”

Rachel bit back a grin as she noticed Jack’s rapid-fire style of questioning Bennet. He wasn’t giving the guy any time to really think, hitting him constantly with questions.

“Oh, well…I’m sure it might sound a little cruel, but I find some of this stuff fascinating. Sleepwalking, people talking in their sleep, and what it all means. That sort of thing.” He hesitated before adding the next part, perhaps trying to decide if it was sharing too much. “For instance, a few months ago, I worked closely with a patient that was completing the New York Times crossword while he slept.

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