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After Eleanor turned twenty, things got evena GP or an ob-gyn on a regular basis, Eleanor Schreiber went to a Dr Jonas for all her all her medical issues Dr William Jonas, an internist at Central in Connecticut And for a young woanized sports, Eleanor see number of inal tearing To Suzanne they seens that Eleanor Schreiber had been in a physically abusive relationship in her twenties And yet Dr Jonas merely treated his patient, took the most perfunctory of notes and sent her on her ithout ever calling the police or an abuse counselor It seeht on his part

Suzanne turned another page in the file Her hands shook as she read To herself she whispered, "Nora Sutherlin…you bad Catholic…"

Age twenty-seven, Eleanor Schreiber had gotten pregnant And Catholic or not, the pregnancy ended quickly with a prescription for RU-486 After that, the medical file ended No …which is what Suzanne had on Father Stearns

Kingsley Edge said go visit the sister--the one she didn’t want to see She knew Father Stearns had a sister in Densley didn’t mean her--that would be one hell of a research trip So that left Claire or Elizabeth

She’d researched Claire last night Lovely woe--a rich Manhattan socialite, no husband, no kids, no scandals As a war correspondent, Suzanne did really hate talking to socialites Maybe that’s what Kingsley meant But then she’d looked into Elizabeth Her very first Google hit on Elizabeth Stearns revealed one vital and terrifying fact Despite also being exceedingly well-off, Elizabeth Stearns had a real job She worked as a therapist for victi knots in Suzanne’s sto to the forefront of her mind After his suicide, the revelation of the abuse he’d suffered from their priest had tainted every e of nine--Adaraduation photo, the day he pushed her in the pool on her twentieth birthday, the pride in his voice when she’d conhted by the knowledge that every grin had been a fake, every laugh ashe wanted to do was spend the day with a woman orked with victims of sex abuse

Suzanne closed the file as she reached her stop In ten minutes she had her rental car In fifteen minutes she was on the road to New Hae dinner in the dining room on Griffin’s anal table, the three of the room Nora threw confetti everywhere in honor of Griffin’s six years clean and sober while Michael sat in near silence on the leather sofa and watched Griffin and Nora do so on top of the coffee table Michael wanted to join in the celebration, would have joined in, but Griffin’s threat froht had put him into hardcore freak-out mode His sexuality he could hide more or less At least he could keep the subuys a secret fro one could keep in the bedroo and Griffin co Griffin a "well-arranged waste of molecules"