“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.”

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

 

by how she valued her friendships, it would not be hard to imagine that

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

 

him to the

to recollect herself. After regaining her composure only did she head

made her way toward her twins’ bedroom and turned the doorknob softly. At the sight of her

made her way to her own bedroom. The woman lay in the bed, staring

was roused awake by Joyce’s phone call at eight

to? I went to his place to send him some medicine, but turned 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

headboard. Her face turned grim as

Natalie did not answer her question, Joyce cocked her head

at the bar sent me

lowered her eyes. “Then, did you know how I

I now? I was drunk out of my wits since I was the one who drunk the

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

Joyce jolted from the mat outside of Stanley’s

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