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.

a heart attack in jail, the other doctors, the ones

Coincidence?

had met their ends

crashes, falls from buildings,

online post claimed it was karmic retribution for the St. Aria Psychiatric Center’s sickos.” I felt

all this really

be a link to the orphanage

grabbed my

coincidence, right?

believed in karma,” Eric said, not elaborating as he

he was holding back, that some questions would

mental institution was closed down; we had to sneak in through

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as eerie as the orphanage, a place that unsettled you the moment you

had featured this place, claiming

private room.” Eric’s voice was hoarse. “We hoped… he’d have it better here.”

hell

open that door and

covered in equations, numbers –

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