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Welcome to Hamlet. Population: 196.
Lucas De Angelis loved three things:
His sister
His hometown
Being a doctor
His wife should be on the list. Sometimes he asked himself why she wasn’t, before coming to the same conclusion: he didn’t actually love her the way she wanted, or deserved. He thought of their marriage as one of convenience. Why not, right? Childhood sweethearts who didn’t know better, Lucas married Caitlin because it was expected of him.
But Caitlin? She married Lucas because she was entirely consumed by her love for him. Obsessed. And everyone in town knew it.
Was it a surprise he chose to get out whenever he could? With Caitlin running the Hamlet Sheriff Department, there was nowhere in Hamlet where he could hide from her when she got to be too much. So, unlike most of the other residents, Lucas hopped in his Mustang and fled to the outside on the regular.
As the strain of his marriage weighed heavily on him, he took a lecturing gig at a nursing school a couple of hours away from Hamlet.
That one decision changed the course of his life.
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