Chapter 116; The Stalker Incident
JENNIFER POV
Parker had come to the hospital that morning while I was still there.
The grocery store was mine now. That was the small thing I'd claimed.
I moved from apples to pears, because the blood orange situation with Dante Wells had clarified that Sedona's palate was more flexible than she'd been letting on, and pears were gentle enough to be reliably edible across the full range of treatment days.
That was when the man appeared.
Not appeared dramatically—not from nowhere, not with any kind of announcement. He simply fell into step beside me the way people sometimes did in grocery stores, in the produce section especially, where the displays required lateral movement and people ended up briefly parallel without planning to. I registered him pe
