Chapter 58 Committed to a Psychiatric Hospital

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The loud banging startled the guards. They rushed to Boone’s cell to check what was going on.

Boone’s eyes were glazed over, his face twisted in agony as he muttered nonsense

nonstop.

The prison doctor arrived quickly, trying to inject him with a sedative–but Boone thrashed wildly like a madman, his strength terrifying.

“No! I won’t! I need to atone! I have to atone!” he screamed, his face covered in tears and snot, his voice raw and hoarse.

The next day, Adrian filed a motion requesting a psychiatric evaluation for Boone, citing signs of mental instability.

When Sloane heard about it, she laughed.

That’s Adrian for you. Golden boy of the legal world—and bold enough to use the insanity card if it might save Boone.

Once a suspect is declared mentally unfit, court proceedings are temporarily suspended.

And if the evaluation concludes that the person is completely incapable of understanding or controlling their behavior, they may be deemed not criminally responsible under the law.

But faking it well enough to fool the professionals? That wasn’t so easy.

to help

justice department sent specialists to conduct

triggered by the psychological trauma of the car accident. He was found to have completely lost the ability to recognize

the criteria

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the Rivers family questioned it. The evaluation had been conducted by an old acquaintance of

day, Boone was transferred to

and went in person

dropped to her knees the moment she

in prison, none of this would’ve come to light without Sloane’s help. Her daughter’s surgery fund never would’ve

she wanted was to keep

“But don’t kneel every time.” She helped Ms. Yvonne up herself, then asked softly, “Is

it weren’t for you, we never would’ve gotten Dr.

surgeons. His time was in such high demand that most families would sell everything they owned and still

your child’s surgery is done, I’ll

stunned. Her lips trembled as she asked, “Treat his leg? But the doctors already said it’s permanent–he’ll never walk

breath hitched. She looked like someone awaiting a final

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