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She replied right away

I won't wait around until he does hurt you Kate, this is for your own good End it now before it goes any further and he either breaks your heart or hurts you for real If you don't, I will send this to the head of surgery along with his FetLife profile Do you know he calls himself Master D? I asked around the nurses at NYP and I heard an earful They say he's a controlling bastard Who knohat else I'll find if I havea bit deeper… End it Kate I don't care if you hate me I have to do this to save you from even worse pain

I didn’t respond I just dialed Lara

She answered on the second ring

"Hey, Kate What's up?"

"Lara, I'm in trouble I need your advice as a lawyer"

"Uh, oh Can I assume it involves Drake?"

"You assuht," I said and related what happened I didn't use Dawn's name but told Lara that it was someone who knew Drake in his professional life

"What happened with his wife?" I asked, cringing, not sure if I wanted to know

"Oh, that was overblown," she replied "He tried to stop her froht she announced she wanted a divorce He wanted to keep talking and she just wanted to leave He stopped her physically Didn't hurt her or anything, but by then, she was so cold to hi her, wanting to get counseling, try to keep the ether, she took out the order of protection It was only te deal It wasn't a perer Drake had been so busy with his work, with establishing his career, he didn't understand how far apart they had grown until it was too late She just couldn't deal with hi it on him out of the blue"

"Poor Drake," I said I felt really bad for him

"Christ," she said, sounding exasperated "What did you tell Drake about this?"

"I tried to break it off with him last week, but he wouldn't accept it He said he wants to stay together and that ould just be really discrete, but this person was able to find out that ere both in the Baharound check on Drake I didn't tell him any of this yet I'm afraid for him"

There was a silence on the line "I was a bit concerned about Drake He's gone a bit native with you, Kate"

"What do you mean?"