Dr. Collins collected the creature with shaking hands.
“Scolopendra… but modified,” he whispered. “This isn’t illness. This is deliberate.”
Everything unraveled after that.
Security footage. A fake doctor.
Marcus Thorne, a disgraced former business partner of Charles Beaumont.
Genetically altered parasites. Revenge.
And a test subject months earlier.
Anna’s father.
Justice followed.
But the truth that echoed loudest in the halls of St. Regina wasn’t medical.
It was simple.
Sometimes the truth isn’t in million-dollar machines or famous experts.
Sometimes…
it’s seen by a child everyone ignored.
And spoken by the one brave enough to say it out loud.
