“Mental breakdown?” Natalie was stumped as her eyes widened in bewilderment.

“Yes.” Shane recounted Dr. Zeplin's diagnosis to Natalie.

Her jaw dropped after listening to him. “Stanley... is mentally unstable...”

He's too good at concealing his true self. I've never noticed that he's mentally deranged.

Does Joyce know about this?

Noticing that she was in a daze, Shane asked, “What are you thinking about?”

Natalie shook her head to snap out of her thoughts. She made her thoughts vocal and said, “I'm just thinking maybe Joyce is not aware of Stanley's condition.”

“That is her problem. Have you thought about how to deal with Stanley?” Shane looked at her and asked again.

The woman bit down on her lip and appeared lost. “I don't know... I really don't. Mr. Shane, can we talk about this tomorrow? I'm tired.”

Natalie was merely avoiding to deal with the problem. Despite feeling irked, he could understand how she

all, and judging by how she valued her friendships, it would not be hard to imagine that she would need to take more time to

then. Have a good rest.” Shane nodded his head slightly and headed for

to the door. Instead, she closed the door behind

and closed her eyes to recollect herself. After regaining her composure

toward her twins' bedroom and turned the doorknob softly. At the sight of her twins fast asleep,

behind her and made her way to her own bedroom. The woman lay in the bed, staring right at

fallen asleep near dawn. She was roused awake by Joyce's phone

out that he wasn't at home. I called the hospital and they said that he did not go in for work either.” Joyce sounded exasperated on the

headboard. Her face turned grim as she

question, Joyce cocked her head

people at the bar sent me home.

“Then, did you know how I got back home

I was drunk out of my wits since I was the one who drunk the most,” Joyce answered with a

stern face on as she breathed in deeply and shut her eyes. “Joyce, I was hypnotized by Stanley into thinking that he was Shane so that he could have

mat outside of Stanley's

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