Lucas walked inside the clinic, his mind preoccupied with Victor, who was finally being discharged today.
But Lucas couldn’t be happy, the sense of unease that had settled in his chest ever since his encounter with Desi the day before.
As he rounded the corner toward Victor’s room, he paused, his gaze caught by a small figure walking toward Desi’s office.
The boy couldn’t have been more than six or seven, his small hands clutching a toy car.
He was dressed casually, but there was something in the way he walked that caught Lucas’s attention, an air of familiarity. He couldn’t ignore the sensation that something wasn’t right.
His instincts flared, and without thinking, Lucas followed the boy. He kept his distance, just enough to avoid being noticed, but close enough to stay within si
