Nocturne
“Michael said as they slowly meandered along the path. “Between my private practice and my clinic, I’d kept so busy over the years that I’d had little time to socialize. But that year I met and fell in love with the daughter of a shipping merchant.”“Did you marry her?” Nicole asked.“We were engaged to be married. I had never been happier. And then . . .”Nicole waited. Michael’s eyes were haunted as he continued.“I was on my way home one night after visiting a patient in the poor district, walkin...g down a dark, deserted lane, when I saw a young woman lying on the ground. Presuming that she was sick or intoxicated, I bent down to see if I could help her. When I touched her shoulder, her eyes blinked open and—I’ll“An exquisite sense of what?”“Pain,” he concluded, a bit too quickly. “I blacked out. I awoke in her rooms a little while later, lying on a filthy bed with her sitting beside me. ‘Aren’t you a handsome one?’ she said with a leer. ‘You’re a keeper, you are.’ I was so weakened from loss of blood that I could hardly move.MoreLess
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