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Just as she pieced together the meaning, the message was retracted.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...
on the light, quickly
eerily quiet in the dim morning
quick call to the hospital's higher-ups ensured someone was there to let her in. She hurried into her grandmother's room, finding her
surprised to see her. "Miss Donovan, what brings
composed herself. I
over to check on her." The nurse smiled. "You're so caring, Miss Donovan. The old lady is
"You can go rest now. I'll stay with Grandma. I'll call you when
more than willing to comply. "Thank you,
left, Athena closed the door and carefully 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
opened her laptop and accessed the surveillance footage from her grandmother's hospital room.
the nurse had briefly left her phone unattended. In that moment, her grandmother's eyes
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for the phone, tapped
down.
timing of this action coincided precisely with the moment Athena had received a mysterious text from the nurse. A chilling realization dawned on her: her grandmother
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
the disturbing evidence unfolded. She immediately demanded the nurse's presence
this to the hospital administration
the nurse entered, Athena confronted her with the footage. "My grandmother just woke up and told ПE she overheard the Kennedys discussing a substantial payment
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