My Husband Wants Me Dead novel (Esther and Bradley)

About half an hour later, the car stopped in a parking lot.

Bradley and Gavin boarded a shuttle that took them to an office.

As soon as they entered, Bradley caught a strong whiff of disinfectant, triggering a memory of having smelled it somewhere before.

"Mr. Warner, have you made your decision? Are you sure you want to go through this door?" Gavin stood by a stainless-steel door, his voice serious and cautious. "If you have second thoughts now, it's not too late."

Bradley positioned himself in front of the electronic door, which opened slowly. He stepped out quickly and looked up to behold a colossal glass dome. Countless koi fish swam joyfully in a glass pond atop the dome.

"Is this an underground facility?" Bradley asked.

Gavin nodded. "Yes."

"What exactly is this place?"

a conference room with a smile. There, a massive electronic screen stood

someone was observing him from the shadows as he sat at the conference table. Instinctively, he reached for

devices experience signal interference here

asked in a lowered voice,

most core

business?" Bradley pressed

feeds. "Mr. Warner, Mr. Pendleton has established his

His eyes were fixed on

a business card earlier," Gavin

business card at the hospital but hadn't connected that business with the Pendletons

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are straightforward. Mr. Pendleton strategically placed his people in various locations, and their affiliation with him is well

just hadn't anticipated Richard to

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