The Good Doctor

THE GOOD DOCTOR AN ADDICTIVE AND GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH A KILLER TWIST JESSICA PAYNE BOOKS BY JESSICA PAYNE The Good Doctor The Lucky One Make Me Disappear Available in audio The Lucky One (Available in the UK and in the US) Make Me Disappear (Available in the UK and in the US) CONTENTS Content Note Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52 Chapter 53 Chapter 54 Chapter 55 Chapter 56 Chapter 57 Chapter 58 Chapter 59 Chapter 60 Chapter 61 Chapter 62 Chapter 63 Chapter 64 Chapter 65 Chapter 66 Chapter 67 Chapter 68 Chapter 69 Chapter 70 Chapter 71 Chapter 72 Chapter 73 Chapter 74 Chapter 75 Chapter 76 Chapter 77 Chapter 78 Chapter 79 Chapter 80 Chapter 81 Chapter 82 Chapter 83 Make Me Disappear Prologue Hear More from Jessica Books by Jessica Payne A Letter from Jessica The Lucky One Acknowledgments * To Annie, who I think would have thoroughly enjoyed this book. Miss you, friend. CONTENT NOTE This book contains mention of fatal illness and physician-assisted suicide. If these are potentially sensitive topics for you, please read with care. PROLOGUE Now I never thought I’d get a second chance at happily ever after. Not after what I did, and to someone I loved, no less. I don’t deserve this. But if I’m lucky enough to get a do-over, I’ll take it. I walk down an empty hall, my footsteps echoing back at me. Reminding me of how my happily ever after dissolved last time. Or rather, was viciously torn apart. That memory beats in time with my heart. A reminder. ONE CHLOE Now This hospital is like all the others—bright fluorescent hallways that hide the shadows, decorated with overly cheery abstract art. You’d never guess that through the double doors a patient is taking their last breath. That in the basement sits a morgue with a dozen bodies waiting to go to the funeral home. Or that like me, a hundred providers populate the hospital, trying our damndest to keep people alive. Mostly, we run off caffeine. The empty to-go