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Just as she pieced together the meaning, the message was retracted.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...
light, quickly dressed, grabbed her phone and bag, and dashed
were eerily quiet in the dim morning
call to the hospital's higher-ups ensured someone was there to let her in. She hurried into her grandmother's room, finding her peacefully asleep in bed while the nurse sat on the
her.
composed herself. I
had a nightmare that something happened to my grandmother, so I rushed over to check on her." The nurse smiled. "You're so caring, Miss
go rest now.
was more than willing to comply. "Thank you,
reviewed the latest 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
room. A surge of shock and fury coursed through her as she watched the
phone unattended. In
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frail woman reached for the phone, tapped
down.
mysterious text from the nurse. A chilling realization dawned on her: her
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 pulling the nurse aside to whisper
immediately demanded the nurse's presence in the
take this to the hospital administration and then
entered, Athena confronted her with the footage. "My grandmother just woke up and
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