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.

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

Coincidence?

their ends in accidents,

falls from buildings, drownings…

post claimed it was karmic retribution for the St. Aria Psychiatric

really be a

could there be a link to the orphanage serial killings?

I grabbed my

be a coincidence, right? Just a twist

Eric said, not elaborating as he got out and opened the car

holding back, that some questions would remain unanswered with

was closed down; we had to

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as eerie as the orphanage, a place that unsettled you

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

it was hell

pushed open that door

in equations, numbers – he was calculating something.

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