The Next Wife: An absolutely gripping psychological thriller with a killer twist by Liz Lawler

Author:Liz Lawler [Lawler, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781800191426
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2020-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

When daylight came she stiffly made her way to the downstairs bathroom. She looked at herself in the large mirror on the wall. Slight bruises around her collarbone showed the imprint of his finger and thumb from where he’d held her by the throat. Last night he might have strangled her if she’d struggled. Last night he might have set her free in a way least expected. She could carry on waiting for it to happen or she could find someone who would believe she was innocent of causing this patient’s death.

She had no proof that she hadn’t caused it. Only her husband knew the truth about that.

Alone in the dark her memory had allowed her to step through all her actions and all of his, and in her mind’s eye she kept seeing that moment when he tied and she cut the tiny threads. The site had been dry when he closed. Even after he’d released the clamps to test the anastomosis, there was only a tiny trickle of blood, so what had gone wrong? He’d blamed her by saying she cut too short. Clipped the knot with her scissors? Which might have held for a while, if not completely cut through. That is until the blood pressure increased and the vessel burst apart under the pressure. But she hadn’t cut too short. She had seen the length of thread left. So what could have gone wrong?

He had closed up by himself, inserted drains by himself, as Suzanne had gone by then; Tess was only passing instruments automatically, following instructions automatically. The tension had gone as the difficult part was over. Was it possible that in the closing of facia and skin layers, in the removal of retractors, he misjudged a movement of an instrument or his hand, that he accidently caught something, damaged what he had just made perfect?

Or had he caused something more deliberate to make her lose her job to keep her home? It was a heinous idea, but so too were some of his behaviours of late.

She trembled at the thought of only him knowing what happened and only him knowing it wasn’t she who caused it. If she went to the police with this – was taken into an interview room and gave a statement – what might happen? Would they investigate? Would her husband be arrested? Doubtful. Even if there was evidence of wrongdoing he’d more likely be questioned and released with no charges against him or against his good character. That would be the reality. It was her word against his, and his was far more powerful, which is probably why he let her take the blame in the first place.

The sad thing was, she might have offered to take the blame if Daniel was the cause of it happening. If he did something inadvertently. She would have done it to save his career, to show she loved him, and she would have done it for future patients whose lives he would undoubtedly save.

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