Vera Mortina, medical fiction by Donald Marks

"Vera Mortina"

When the patient is not the sick one

(Dangerous Doctors Series of medical fiction)" by Dimitri Markov.

Intense Medical Fiction about a doctor so very violent, even her colleagues never suspected, by Dimitri Markov. Available Amazon & Kindle http://amzn.to/2fll9kq.

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     "Richard’s thoughts were interrupted by a knock on his office door. Thinking it was probably Lorraine, announcing the arrival of his next patient, he got up and opened the door. He was shocked to be greeted by the penetrating stare of Vera’s cold, dark eyes. What was most apparent to him now was not any hint of a threat, nor suspicion. but their total lack of emotional content. Vera just seemed to stare right through him, almost as if her wasn’t there, or didn’t matter. It was the merciless, premeditated stare of a predator facing down helpless prey before striking, and, for a moment, it filled him with a clear sense of dread. Beyond Vera, he looked down the hall toward the reception area where Martha was visible by her absence."
     “Richard, why are you staring at me so?” Vera asked, half-sarcastically as she so effortlessly turned the dynamics of their meeting against him.
     At times like this, Richard wondered if Vera could actually read his mind, and if she did, what she must have felt. Looking directly into her eyes for the briefest of moments, he could now detect only an amused indifference. Although Vera seemed quite aware of his thoughts, she was also, paradoxically, totally oblivious to any perceived threat on his part. “I’m sorry if I was staring, Vera. I was just expecting Lorraine.”