Chapter 37
At the break of dawn, the sky was still a muted gray. Athena was sleeping soundly when she heard her phone chime with a special notification: [Message from the hospital, please address urgently.] This was a custom notification she had set specifically for any updates from the hospital. The sound meant only one thing- something was wrong with her grandmother. Athena immediately opened her eyes, sat up, and reached for her phone on the bedside table.
The message from the nurse read: [Help Grandma, don't come back.]
Help
Grandma?
Don't come back?
Just as she pieced together the meaning, the message was retracted.
What was going on with the nurse? Even if there was an issue with Grandma, why wouldn't the nurse be straightforward
about
it?
No, something felt off.
The message was likely sent by her grandmother, using the nurse's phone in secret to avoid detection...
Athena switched on the light, quickly dressed, grabbed her phone and bag, and dashed
were eerily quiet in the dim
in under twenty minutes. Though the inpatient ward wasn't officially open at this hour, a quick call to the hospital's higher-ups ensured someone
up, surprised to see her.
herself.
check on her." The nurse smiled.
go rest now. I'll stay with Grandma.
to comply. "Thank you, Miss Donovan. If you
examined her grandmother's eyes, mouth, and pulse. She also reviewed the latest medical readings, her expression growing serious. Recently, her grandmother's health indicators had been stable and improving. But today, her blood
accessed the surveillance footage from her grandmother's hospital room. A surge of shock and fury coursed through her as she watched
her phone unattended. In that moment, her grandmother's eyes
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the frail woman reached for the phone, tapped out a message, and then carefully
down.
text from the nurse. A chilling realization dawned on her: her grandmother didn't trust the nurse. Something was definitely
her grandmother awakened, Micah had secretly slipped something into her grandmother's drink. She also witnessed Isaac and his family entering the room the previous evening, with Isaac pulling the nurse aside to whisper something conspiratorial.
demanded the nurse's presence in the hospital
I'll take this to the hospital administration and then to
woke up and told ПE she overheard the Kennedys discussing a substantial payment
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