His words struck a chord with Derek, who made a conscious decision not to bring up Raven Island again. Instead, he resolved to find another way to aid Mr. Thomas.

Deep in thought, Marcus kept his eyes shut. In recent days, his mind had been occupied with the question of who might have sent the people to injure him. There seemed to be a complicated web of interests at play, and he suspected that the instigator might be someone close to him.

Just outside the door, an incident occurred. A man, wearing a cap, collided with Rhea, who had been waiting.

Rhea’s phone was quickly stowed away as she yelled in anger, “Can’t you see where you’re going?”

The man’s eyes darted into the room where Marcus lay, and he pulled his cap down.

“Sorry,” he mumbled before hurrying off.

to the commotion,

here?”

massaged her aching shoulder where the collision had

who wasn’t paying attention to his surroundings bumped into

glanced around, but the corridor was vacant, and the person

pursuit, intuition telling him that this

too late. Upon reaching the hospital’s exit, he found

without success, his face marked by

Thomas, the man

thought about the implications. Was the man sent by

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