"I was just here this afternoon! She was fine when I left a few hours ago. How can this be?"
I could hear my voice quavering.
The doctor was a little puzzled. "We're not too sure of the exact reason. In fact, the patient's condition has been rather stable over the past few days. What would've caused this sudden deterioration?"
The nurse who recognised me came over. "Did you or your family say anything to her?"
"Say something to her? No, of course not!"
I'd just subconsciously denied it when a slender figure suddenly flashed in my mind.
Phoebe!
Could it be that she hadn't just been making an empty threat?
The nurse wrote something down in her notebook and looked at me doubtfully. "Really? That's really odd, then."
I grabbed her. "Did a young lady come here this afternoon?"
"Yeah."
