Chapter 141

Eric hesitated for a moment but eventually nodded.

On my way to the mental institution, my body couldn’t stop shaking.

I couldn’t pinpoint the sadness, but my mind was haunted by that room, charred black.

The fire, the thick smoke, the desperate screams.

Sharing a room with Colin, I knew his back was a canvas of gruesome scars, his hands, his calves – all marred by burns.

Remnants of that devastating fire.

The pain he must have endured back then.

“The mental institution was shut down later. The director was arrested after abuses were exposed.”

On the ride there, I Googled the mental institution, uncovering a slew of horrifying scandals.

Doctors using patients for their amusement, torturing them.

Electroshock, waterboarding, suffocation, torment. Humanity’s worst magnified within those

walls.

ones not convicted, seemed to have died off over the years.” A realization made me sit bolt upright.

Coincidence?

met their

crashes, falls from

for the St. Aria Psychiatric Center’s sickos.” I felt

this really be

could there be a link to

grabbed my hair, trying to stay

to be a coincidence, right? Just

he

some questions would remain unanswered with him.

closed down; we had to sneak in through the

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the orphanage, a place

had featured this place, claiming it was

a private room.” Eric’s voice was hoarse. “We hoped…

hell

pushed open that door and

in equations, numbers –

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