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“Mel,” Frank says again, standing still by the door. “I—”
“Did she throw it out? The letter?”
His phone vibrates in his pocket. It had been doing so non-stop since they left the hospital. He reaches inside and silences it, again. He doesn’t have to check—they know it’s Abby.
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“We don’t have swimsuits.”
Neither of them are looking for an out. They’re seeing how far they can go.
“I don’t mind,” she says again. The humid air makes everything feel frozen in time. This is a line.
Langdon smiles. “Good girl,” he says, crossing it.
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“Mel, come here baby,” he murmurs, nuzzling further into her, dragging his lips down to the first knobs of her spine. There should be a mole there, right in the middle of the back of her neck. He frowns, pulling back slightly, and when he blinks his eyes open, really looks, he’s not met with Mel’s warm honey hair.
Oh.
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He liked her in sunset, the dying summer light in her honeyed hair, just for him. Every moment, something to remember.
—Langdon takes care of his baby.
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She guesses it's true what they say: Pittsburgh's a small city, even if it doesn't seem like it. You never know who you'll run into.
—Mel and Langdon run into each other at a bar, two weeks after their first shift.
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“Well, Aunt Irene asked if you were bringing any one.”
“... And you told her no. Because I’m not bringing anyone. Right?”
“I did not do that.” Becca said, looking sideways, avoiding Mel’s eye.
Mel blanched, swallowing hard, eyelids stuttering. But she had to keep her cool. She could not yell. She could not freak out.
“I told Aunt Irene that you were bringing your boyfriend.”
“Becca,” She said, as calmly as she could, “I don’t have a boyfriend. You know that. I’ve never had a boyfriend.” The last line, in a whisper.
“Well, I told her that Dr. Langdon was your boyfriend.”
Mel brings Dr. Langdon as her plus-one to her cousin Claire's wedding. Dr. Langdon is all too willing to pretend to be her boyfriend. Maybe a little too willing? To follow: a dog bite, spanking-related misunderstandings, erotic steak eating, and of course: only-one-bed!
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It’s not something they talk about. It’s a secret language of theirs that doesn’t need to be spoken aloud.
Stolen glances across the ER, marks left on her neck, tits, thighs, and her arms in the shape of his mouth and hands. His wedding band has also started leaving bruises on her skin. Sometimes he pressed down on her skin so roughly, the ring would break skin.
They don’t need the words for it, don’t need verbal rules. It’s theirs, he already knows what she needs by one glance, one look, one touch.
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Mel and Frank have an unconventional affair.
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She dips her head down, not looking at him directly, “Yes, sir.”
Just like that, Frank hears wedding bells. He’ll have her in a white dress in the church down the hill by week’s end. He leans down to catch her eye.
“No more of that, sweetheart. You oughta call me Daddy now.”
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"If it ever happened," Frank murmured, so soft only she could hear, "you know l'd take care of you, right?"
Her breath hitched, her lips parting just slightly. "What would you do?"
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"Mel?" Abby repeated him, "Why would she want to do that?"
Something in Frank bristled at that.
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"The kitchen cabinet is covered in stains. They aren’t clear from standing, blended into the grain, but on the floor the odd marks and splatters are obvious, little memories ground into the wood.
The door hangs at an odd angle now, half open, only hinged at the bottom. A sticky red-brown wetness stains the outside corner, running over the other marks.
Her heartbeat matches a throbbing deep in her skull, blood sluggishly dripping from her temple. Mel can track its path down her face like a second skin, tight and itchy."
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Mel tries to pull herself together after she's home during a burglary and is caught in the crossfire. Frank finds her in the wreckage and makes that his job instead
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18 Jul 2025