[ He steps into the little room after Emily. Leona never mentioned this level of obsession when he took the job, but it’s extremely possibly she didn’t know either. The thought makes something hot and angry settle in his gut. So help him, he’ll ruin this guy if it’s the last thing he does. ]
Funny, the things people do for love.
[ He says it blandly, his anger remaining deeply buried. He moves to the notes, and begins shuffling through the papers with purpose. The love notes and the pleas for help aren’t what interest him. It’s the professional papers, and if they’re not in here, Alec will eat his shoe.
At last he starts to uncover them, scrawled doctor’s notes outlining Edward Baxter’s condition. The intention is there, at first, to administer a proper treatment, but as Monroe and Leona’s affair continued, the treatment took a very different turn. Alec leafs through lists of symptoms and how to induce them, how to prolong them, how to start a steady but gentle decline of the other man’s health.
And at last, at the bottom of the pile, a newspaper clipping of Edward Baxter’s obituary.
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Funny, the things people do for love.
[ He says it blandly, his anger remaining deeply buried. He moves to the notes, and begins shuffling through the papers with purpose. The love notes and the pleas for help aren’t what interest him. It’s the professional papers, and if they’re not in here, Alec will eat his shoe.
At last he starts to uncover them, scrawled doctor’s notes outlining Edward Baxter’s condition. The intention is there, at first, to administer a proper treatment, but as Monroe and Leona’s affair continued, the treatment took a very different turn. Alec leafs through lists of symptoms and how to induce them, how to prolong them, how to start a steady but gentle decline of the other man’s health.
And at last, at the bottom of the pile, a newspaper clipping of Edward Baxter’s obituary.
He hands the pile over to Emily. ]
You might find this to be engaging reading.