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That was a so her to shut up and just do her job that wasn’t even re these questions because I’m nosy You have to realize that the more I know about her, the better I’ll be able to help her or look for signs of deterioration or improvehtening his white lab coat "I’ve known the de Vincents for a long time, and II fend off questions about thehed out a dry laugh "So, I guess I’m used to ulterior y accepted"

He glanced over at Madeline "There have been previousany of them or Madeline before her disappearance, but"

"But what?"

"But I was told that they did have some issues with her before she disappeared She could be quite rebellious and reckless"

Her gaze fell back to Madeline According to the chart, she was roughly a year older than Julia "She was a teenager I iine the rebelliousness had a lot to do with that"

Dr Flores didn’t respond immediately "I’m not quite sure exactly what she may or may have not done, but there is one person ould definitely know and that’s her twin"

She kneho that ithout asking Just based on the appearance alone "She and Lucian are twins?"

"Fraternal" He flashed a brief s "Runs in the family Their father and uncle were identical, and frohout their father’s line that were twins Anyway, I need to get back to the hospital" He started toward the door "If you have any questions or so co, she said goodbye to the doctor as she turned over the new piece of infor it ahile herof the conversation So Julia couldn’t wrap her head around

As far as the world knew, Madeline was still

Julia hadn’t asked Dr Flores if the police knew that Madeline had returned, because she figured that they hadn’t been told What good would keeping such a secret do? She understood that the family didn’t want the , but that wasn’t going to affect Madeline at the moment

But someone out there had to knohat had happened to her, where she’d been this entire time Didn’t her family want to knohat happened to her?

Wouldn’t they want the police out there investigating so they could bring whoever was responsible for Madeline’s state to justice?

Calling this a ht as she closed the door

Julia was full of questions, but a wave of sympathy for the family also rose The brothers lost their sister and ht, and God only knehat had been done to Madeline The de Vincents rossly rich family, but they were all still human

Death didn’t care how rich you were Neither did sickness of the body or mind

The hardest parts of life did not discri heavily, she turned back to the bed The next breath got caught in her throat as her heart turned over heavily

Madeline was looking straight at her

Frozen for a half a second, she then rushed to her bedside "Madeline?"

The wolassy andblank She wasn’t actually looking at her She’d simply woken up and her head had lolled toward her