Chapter 9 - LINDA’S BARGAIN
Linda confessed after learning Robert intended to abandon her.
Robert had promised Daniel would inherit the hospital system if I died.
Linda believed she was securing her son’s future.
She called me selfish for surviving.
Then she cried and called it fear.
Both were true.
She had drugged me.
Pressed on my incision.
Signed false medical forms.
Her motherhood did not excuse attempted murder.
Margaret—Daniel’s father’s widow—revealed Linda had always treated marriage as strategy.
Daniel’s first fiancée disappeared after questioning family finances.
Police reopened that case.
The woman had been placed inside a psychiatric facility under another identity.
Alive.
Another life erased.
Then Robert contacted me directly.
He said Linda was a distraction.
The real threat was Evelyn.
He offered the original trust file if I came alone.
I refused private terms.
Federal agents arranged the meeting.
Robert did not appear.
Instead, a hospital television feed showed him inside an operating room.
Beside him lay Sophie.
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Sedated.
Read Chapter 10 to discover why Robert needed Sophie’s blood.
