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Just as she pieced together the meaning, the message was retracted.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...
switched on the light, quickly dressed,
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 was there to
see her. "Miss Donovan, what brings you
herself.
that something happened to my grandmother, so I rushed over to check on her." The
paused, then said to the nurse, "You can go rest now. I'll stay with Grandma.
you, Miss Donovan. If you need anything, just
medical readings, her expression growing serious. Recently, her grandmother's health indicators had been stable and improving. But today, her blood pressure and heart rate were off, her complexion had worsened, and her eyes appeared cloudy. What on earth had
accessed the surveillance footage from her grandmother's hospital room. A surge of shock and fury coursed through her as she
had briefly left her phone unattended. In that moment, her grandmother's eyes flickered
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deliberate movements, the frail woman reached for the phone, tapped out a message, and then carefully
down.
moment Athena had received a mysterious text from the nurse. A chilling realization dawned on her: her grandmother didn't
alarmed, Athena delved deeper into the footage. The previous night, she discovered a disturbing scene. After 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
the disturbing evidence unfolded. She immediately demanded the
to the hospital
the footage. "My grandmother just woke up and told ПE
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