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?"

silent but led Bradley to a conference room with a

he sat at the conference table. Instinctively, he reached for his phone, only to find it somehow

devices experience signal interference here

lowered voice, "What is this

is Mr. Pendleton's most core

specific business?" Bradley

feeds. "Mr. Warner,

heart raced. His eyes were fixed on the screen,

business card earlier," Gavin said,

at the hospital but

your supply come

placed his people in various

hadn't anticipated Richard to dare such deeds.

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