Swim Deep - Page 34

“What type of medicine do you practice?” I asked.

“Internal medicine.”

“Is your office in Tahoe Shores?”

“Yep,” he replied, rocking back on his heels, hands again jammed deep in his pockets. “Although I have patients who come from all over the are

a. But basically, I’m just your small-town doc who never wandered far from the place he grew up.”

“You’re lucky. Tahoe Shores is a lovely town, and who can complain about this?” I said, waving out at the incandescent lake and pine covered mountains. He merely shrugged. I had the impression that Dr. Wes Ryder himself might complain occasionally about the life he’d chosen.

“How long have you two been here? At Les Jumeaux?” he asked.

“Evan didn’t tell you?”

He shook his head. “I only just learned he’d returned when he called me yesterday.”

“It’s been a few weeks.”

“And what do you think of your new home?”

I looked around me. “It’s just your basic heaven.” I stated the obvious with a smile.

Wes nodded, staring out at the lake thoughtfully. “Evan says you grew up in the Midwest?”

“Oak Park. It’s a Chicago suburb. But I went to art school in San Francisco.”

“And that’s where you met Evan. It’s remarkable, really.”

“Remarkable?” I laughed.

His teeth showed when he smiled. “That he was able to find love again. It’s good to have him back. It’s been seven years since he’s been to Les Jumeaux. Seven years since I’ve last seen him.”

Seven years since Elizabeth died, a voice in my head added.

“Evan never came back and visited, even for a few days?” I wondered.

Wes shook his head. “His parents moved back east a good ten or eleven years ago, so they weren’t here for him to visit.”

“And I suppose it was hard for him to be here at first, because of Elizabeth,” I said slowly.

“In more ways than one.”

I raised my eyebrows. “What do you mean?”

“Well, he couldn’t be here until now. The courts only gave him legal access to Les Jumeaux earlier this year.”

“I’m not sure what you mean. Why only this year?”

Wes hesitated for a moment, studying my face.

“Elizabeth’s father hired a team of crack lawyers to prevent Evan’s inheritance of the property. Evan hired better ones, apparently. But more to my point, Evan couldn’t inherit until Elizabeth was officially declared as deceased. That only happened this year.”

“I’m sorry?” I asked, squinting to bring him into better focus.

“The law states that a person can only be declared dead after they’ve gone missing for seven years.”

“Do you mean to say—”

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