Chapter 9 - THE PRESCRIPTIONS
The medication came from Dr. Samuel Brooks, our family physician.
He diagnosed me with anxiety at eighteen.
Prescribed sleep aids.
Adjusted doses whenever I questioned Richard.
The pills contained a compound that affected memory, blood pressure, and kidney function.
Samuel received payments from Whitaker Biomedical.
He claimed he believed the medication protected me from “family stress.”
Records showed he knew it preserved donor compatibility.
The medical board suspended him.
Federal charges followed.
Then investigators reviewed every family checkup.
Maya received different pills.
Daniel received suppressants that exaggerated his kidney decline.
Sarah received medication causing recurrent infections.
Michael received no medication because he was incompatible and therefore less valuable.
Richard manufactured illness where useful and intensified real illness where profitable.
Evelyn helped manage schedules.
She called it care.
Then Dr. Evans told me I might eventually require a transplant.
The possibility filled me with rage.
I had donated under coercion and could become a recipient because of the same family.
I refused to let anyone call that irony.
It was violence.
Maya volunteered immediately to be tested.
I said no.
Not yet.
No emotional debt.
No organ traded through guilt.
Independent ethics teams would decide only if the need came.
That boundary began healing between us.
Then Daniel’s condition worsened.
He refused any organ connected to the family program.
Standard treatment stabilized him.
For the first time, he received medicine without ownership.
Then Sarah’s facility reported her disappearance.
Security footage showed a woman in an elegant cream suit collecting her.
Evelyn was in custody.
The woman wore her face.
Another twin.
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Another hidden Whitaker wife.
Read Chapter 10 to discover the woman Richard married before Evelyn—and why she still carried my mother’s name.
