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.

attack in jail, the other doctors, the ones not convicted, seemed to have died off over the

Coincidence?

their

falls from buildings,

claimed it was karmic retribution for the St. Aria Psychiatric Center’s

really be a

accidental, could there be a link to the orphanage

and I grabbed my hair, trying to

had to be a coincidence, right? Just a twist of fate.

he got out and opened the

back, that some questions would remain unanswered

mental institution was closed down; we had

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place that unsettled you the moment

livestream had featured this

Langley family had arranged for a private

it was hell on earth.

that door and froze.

in equations, numbers – he

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