CHAPTER 4: THE HOSPITAL STORM
The hospital doors exploded open.
Not literally—but it felt like it.
Doctors ran.
Security cleared halls.
A private medical team took over everything within seconds.
Brian arrived thirty minutes later.
Confident.
Angry.
Annoyed, even.
Until he saw the waiting room.
Men in black suits.
Security badges marked CARTER GLOBAL.
Carol whispered, “What is this…?”
Then the elevator opened.
And my father walked out.
No shouting.
No rushing.
Just silence that crushed everything.
Brian tried to smile.
“Sir, you must be mistaken. I think there’s—”
My father looked at him once.
Just once.
And Brian stopped speaking mid-sentence.
Because some people don’t need to raise their voice to end your life.
“You left my daughter on a highway,” my father said quietly.
Carol dropped her phone.
Vanessa stopped breathing.
Brian went pale.
“I didn’t know—” he started.
May you like
My father interrupted him.
“No. You did.”
