“I didn’t file a police report,” I said.

“He assumes you did,” Marcus said.

“Guilt makes men jump at shadows.”

By two in the afternoon, I was waiting outside the pre-op unit when Dr.

Andrew Collins stepped out of the staff elevator holding a blue chart folder.

He walked past the quiet waiting area and waved me over to the office alcove.

He adjusted his round glasses before opening the folder against the wall.

“I went over the intake log from October twelfth again, Mrs.