The Quiet We Kept
by Thrill Reads · completed · 4.5★ (536 ratings) · Romance, Mystery
Nineteen years ago, fourteen-year-old Mateo Amado collapsed in his own driveway and died on a table in Little Fork Community Hospital. The town decided the doctor killed him. Dr. Martin Winslow surrendered his license, sold his family's ridge to pay the settlement, and never said one word in his own defense. Now paramedic Cecelia Amado runs every call of every shift into the emergency room Martin's son is fighting to keep open — and Jonah Winslow is the only man in Cade County who looks at her like she isn't made out of that night. She has spent nineteen years quietly building a case. In a basement chart room she finally finds the file, and the first thing she learns is that everything her family believes is wrong. The second thing is worse: her brother's handwriting is on it.
Chapters (70)
- Chapter 1: Forty-One Minutes
- Chapter 2: The Name on the Jacket
- Chapter 3: Unit Six
- Chapter 4: Sunday Table
- Chapter 5: Lola Rory's Pin
- Chapter 6: Compressions
- Chapter 7: The Green Bridge
- Chapter 8: The Coat on the Hook
- Chapter 9: Butterscotch
- Chapter 10: Miss Verna's List
- Chapter 11: The Arithmetic
- Chapter 12: One Year, Three Years
- Chapter 13: Four Ten in the Morning
- Chapter 14: The Stopped Clock
- Chapter 15: What the Town Says
- Chapter 16: The Spreadsheet
- Chapter 17: The Ask
- Chapter 18: Room B-4
- Chapter 19: Nineteen Boxes
- Chapter 20: Two Forms
- Chapter 21: Whose Hand (premium)
- Chapter 22: Staple Holes (premium)
- Chapter 23: What Yolanda Saw (premium)
- Chapter 24: Cutshall Street (premium)
- Chapter 25: Christmas Cards (premium)
- Chapter 26: The Tuesday Car (premium)
- Chapter 27: House Calls (premium)
- Chapter 28: Mateo (premium)
- Chapter 29: The Chapel Doorway (premium)
- Chapter 30: January (premium)
- Chapter 31: The Almost (premium)
- Chapter 32: Nashville (premium)
- Chapter 33: The Birthday Card (premium)
- Chapter 34: The Bridge, in April (premium)
- Chapter 35: Seven Weeks (premium)
- Chapter 36: Who Paid (premium)
- Chapter 37: Winslow Money (premium)
- Chapter 38: The Check (premium)
- Chapter 39: All Right Then (premium)
- Chapter 40: Page Five (premium)
- Chapter 41: The Coat (premium)
- Chapter 42: Rosalie (premium)
- Chapter 43: The Twenty-Fifth of April (premium)
- Chapter 44: Uninvited (premium)
- Chapter 45: Refused (premium)
- Chapter 46: The Ninth of June (premium)
- Chapter 47: Ninety Days (premium)
- Chapter 48: The Quiet (premium)
- Chapter 49: Loretta's Victory (premium)
- Chapter 50: The Letter She Burned (premium)
- Chapter 51: The Last Night Shift (premium)
- Chapter 52: Fifty-One Minutes (premium)
- Chapter 53: The Ridge (premium)
- Chapter 54: Minute Thirty-Nine (premium)
- Chapter 55: Forty-One (premium)
- Chapter 56: Mount Zion (premium)
- Chapter 57: C-O-A-T (premium)
- Chapter 58: Please, Just Till the Third (premium)
- Chapter 59: Nineteen Years of It (premium)
- Chapter 60: Because He Saw Me (premium)
- Chapter 61: It's Handled (premium)
- Chapter 62: Rain on Cutshall Street (premium)
- Chapter 63: The Green Bridge, Again (premium)
- Chapter 64: The Petition (premium)
- Chapter 65: The Twentieth of January (premium)
- Chapter 66: Waived (premium)
- Chapter 67: OPEN (premium)
- Chapter 68: Five Years (premium)
- Chapter 69: The Twelfth of June (premium)
- Chapter 70: Nine Fifty-Eight (premium)
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