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.

other doctors, the ones not convicted, seemed to have

Coincidence?

had met their ends in accidents,

falls from buildings, drownings…

claimed it was karmic retribution for the St. Aria Psychiatric Center’s sickos.” I felt a chill reading that

all this really be

deaths weren’t accidental, could there be a link to the orphanage

headache struck, and I grabbed my hair, trying to stay cool.

had to be a coincidence, right? Just a

as he got out and opened the car

knew he was holding back, that some questions would remain unanswered

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

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orphanage, a place that unsettled you the moment you stepped inside.

exploration livestream had featured this place,

The Langley family had arranged for a private room.” Eric’s voice was hoarse. “We hoped… he’d

hell

pushed open that

walls were covered in equations, numbers

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