Chapter 2 - The Phantom Medicine
The winter garden felt suddenly colder as her words echoed off the glass walls.
I demanded to know exactly what she meant by that insane statement.
Her name was Sarah, and she confessed that she had been paid to falsify the medical records that night.
The body in the morgue had been burned beyond recognition in the car crash.
She told me that a man with a silver scar on his jaw had forced her to switch the dental records.
I gripped the armrests of my wheelchair until my knuckles turned completely white.
The man with the silver scar was my own personal physician, Dr. Aris.
Sarah explained that she had changed her identity and hidden in the slums for eight years to protect her children.
She only took the cleaning job here because she was desperate for money and thought I would never recognize her.
I asked her why Lily had come into the winter garden and played that specific song.
Sarah looked confused, swearing that Lily only played that music because she found an old music box in the attic.
I felt a sudden, sharp pain shoot up my right calf.
The phantom limb pain I had suffered for years was suddenly feeling dangerously real.
I called Vance over and ordered him to lock down the entire estate immediately.
Nobody was allowed to leave, especially Dr. Aris, who was currently in the west wing preparing my evening medication.
I forced Sarah to push my wheelchair down the long marble corridor toward the medical suite.
We burst into the room just as Dr. Aris was filling a syringe with a clear liquid.
He froze, his eyes darting toward the heavy security door behind me.
I ordered Vance to take the syringe and run a full chemical analysis on it.
Dr. Aris lunged for a scalpel on the metal tray, but Vance slammed him against the wall in a second.
The doctor laughed, blood dripping from his nose as he looked at my paralyzed legs.
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He told me I was a fool for believing a car crash broke my spine.
He sneered and said he had been injecting me with a synthetic paralytic neurotoxin every single day for eight years.
