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A local woman missing- Mary Kubica

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what she must have gone through in the moments before she died. I

wondered what exactly someone did to take her life. Was she

stabbed, shot, suffocated? No one has said. My mind drifted then to

the blood the police found in Josh and Meredith’s garage. Was it

Meredith’s blood? Delilah’s? How did it get there? My thoughts then

shifted to Dr. Feingold, the malpractice suit, two figures hiding in the

darkness of the Dickeys’ home that night, weeks ago, when

Cassandra saw. Was it Dr. Feingold that she saw? Did he do

something to Meredith and Delilah? At some point in the middle of

the night, I knew that I needed to meet this man. I need to see for

myself if he’s someone capable of murder.

“Then I’m going with you,” Bea decides.

“You can’t,” I say.

“Why the hell not?” she asks. She’s angry because she’s worried

for me.

“Because two women can’t conceive on their own,” I say. “It would

raise questions. Dr. Feingold would want to know why we didn’t just

go see our fertility specialist if we were pregnant.”

“We don’t have to tell him we’re gay,” she says. “We’ll tell him I’m

your friend. This baby is the result of a one-night stand with some

man. I’m not letting you do this alone. He could be dangerous, Kate.

We don’t know. Either I go with,” she says, giving me an ultimatum,

because quite often that’s what Bea is in our relationship, the

decision maker, “or you don’t go.”

Bea won’t be talked out of it. She’s decided, and so I agree. I finish

getting ready and follow Bea downstairs, where I sit down at the

kitchen counter and research symptoms of early pregnancy on the

laptop. I won’t have to fake the nausea because, with Meredith and

Delilah still missing, I feel constantly sick to my stomach. I can hardly

keep anything down.

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