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IIT'S HARD DETECTIVE work when you could only interview through thick glass while wearing a hazmat suit.
It's worse when you're trying to find out why someone is healing the terminally ill and being very successful at it.
Because since this one nurse took over, people had quit dying.
But the hospital wouldn't let them out of quarantine. Until my investigation was complete.
No pressure.
The problem was how I was getting paid. All in cash, Random serial numbers, unmarked and used bills. Occasionally someone included a note, printed out by a laser printer on common paper stock. No fingerprints on anything. Completely anonymous.
And all I wanted was they stay off my back if they wanted to keep it that way.
Because this coin had two faces. Let me do my job finding what you asked me to, or I'd find out the flip side as well.
That was the message I sent the last time I got a note from them with advice on it. And no more notes since.
I told them three weeks. Period. I'd solve it or give them their money back. Minus expenses.
No notes since. And I had under a week left, with no leads. Yes, I was getting a bit nervous.
But I didn't have to deal with perfectly healthy people who weren't even allowed to talk to their family. Or me.
It all depended on this one head nurse named Cathy.
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