The Doctor's Child: An incredibly gripping and page-turning psychological thriller (The Doctor's Wife Book 4) by Daniel Hurst

Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2024-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

PIERRE

I really wish my wife hadn’t seen the stupid scribblings I had made on my notepad. I don’t even know why I bothered making them because they don’t even work. Despite what some studies say about writing affirmations to make yourself feel better, I can categorically state that it does not work, at least for me anyway. I should know because I’ve been writing them for a while, several years in fact, on and off, but I don’t feel any better about myself or what I did in the past.

I still feel guilty about burying that body.

And I still live in fear that I’ll go to prison one day for doing it.

Sipping my coffee and nibbling on my brownie does stop me from feeling as tired as I was before my wife came and brought me these things, but fatigue is the least of my problems. Guilt and paranoia are far higher on that list, and those aren’t quite so easily dealt with. A person might think that someone with my skillset and knowledge would know of a medication that might help with processing a troubling event in the past, but all I do know is that none of the medications work. Pills are only good for certain things and, while they can ease physical pain, they can’t remove the memory of a dead man.

Wine can help things, but it’s only a short-term fix.

There’s no long-term escape from the torment I have inside me.

Trying to get back to work, I wonder why my actions ten years ago are playing on my mind so much again now. Some days are always worse than others, and sometimes there are a few magical days when I almost go the full twenty-four hours without thinking about that hole I dug or the person I put into it. But today is not one of the good days and it’s been more bad than good recently.

When I discovered that my wife had murdered her horrible ex-partner and he was lying dead on our bedroom floor, it was an awful lot to process. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of time to process things when a dead body is involved. You have no choice but to move quickly, at least you do if you want to stay out of prison, so I sprang into action that day before I really had time to think about what I was doing. Even now, it’s hard to know if I was more fuelled by a desire to avoid the police or desire to keep the woman I loved safe, so I like to think it was 50/50 and leave it at that.

On that day, ten years ago, after excusing myself from work for the rest of the day due to a fake sickness bug, I went downstairs to the kitchen to find some items that could help me with what I needed to do. I found a couple of pairs of rubber gloves under the sink as well as several

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