The Clinic by Cate Quinn

Author:Cate Quinn [Quinn, Cate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO

CARA

Since the police left, I’ve been in a daze. I can’t really believe what Hanson told me was true. Dr. Lutz ran a rehab facility in Florida that was shut down? Our staff has records for violence? Connections to organized crime networks?

It’s too ridiculous. Like something on the TV. The police are trying to make Dr. Lutz look bad.

I’m still trying to forget all about it when Max arrives at my desk, looking flustered.

“Do you know what happened to Meg?” he asks. “Her scheduled therapy location was altered.”

“Not by me.” I frown. Tap my scheduler. “Looks like… Oh. Well, Dr. Lutz changed the session,” I say, confused. “Meg has treatment now.”

Max’s eyes show dark rage. “I told him,” he mutters. “I told him it was too soon.”

My mind pans back to our earlier conversation. Max’s implication that Dr. Lutz wanted to rush Meg into treatment before she was ready. But surely Dr. Lutz wouldn’t…rearrange without consulting his lead psychologist?

Before I can respond, Max sets off in the direction of the treatment rooms at a fast stride.

I watch him go, my previous suspicions of Dr. Lutz taking a lurch to their feet. Making a decision, I turn to my computer. I’ll search online. Settle once and for all that there’s no truth in what the police said about Dr. Lutz. I click on the search bar and my fingers hover.

For a moment, I have a horrible flashback. Searching the internet for my own name. Finding it.

Mystery blond and hotel mogul.

Married hotelier checks into own hotel for adulterous fun.

Plain Jane and Mr. Beaumont.

I shake away the memories with a shudder. Type “Dr. Lutz” and “Florida rehab” into the search.

Pages of information roll past. Nothing suspicious or strange. Just information on Dr. Lutz. His experience. Research projects he’s funding.

I breathe out. See? Dr. Lutz is a good guy.

I open up a page at random. A mini bio confirms exactly what Dr. Lutz told me. He spent ten years in India, using holistic treatments for addiction.

There’s a picture of him outside an Indian rehab facility, sitting cross-legged and barefoot, with all his smiling rehabilitated drug users behind him.

There’s a smile on my face. How could anyone suspect gentle, bearded Dr. Lutz of anything untoward? I look a little closer, reading the caption.

“Abhaya Lutzheimer and his students.”

Abhaya Lutzheimer?

I ponder this. Some kind of yoga name Dr. Lutz took maybe? In India?

Another possibility hits me. Could he have been using his alternative name in the Florida rehab the police spoke about?

Very slowly I repeat the earlier search. This time using “Abhaya Lutzheimer” and “Florida rehab.”

Somehow I know what I’m going to see even before the pages and pages of news roll up.

Multiple headlines leap out, none of them good.

15 ARRESTED IN SOUTH FLORIDA PATIENT KICKBACK SCHEME

ADDICTS LURED TO RELAPSE AT SWISS-RUN CLINIC

SWISS DOCTOR CHARGED AT CORRUPT REHAB

There’s a tight knot in my stomach.

It looks like Dr. Lutz was involved in some kind of corruption at a Florida rehab facility. He wasn’t prosecuted, but there was strong evidence that he was involved in some version of the Florida shuffle.

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