"Whether the card is legitimate or not is a matter easily settled. Send someone to run it, and we shall see who is the fool," Liam stated, his voice as level and sharp as a glacier's edge.
The Chief Administrator studied Liam’s face, searching for a flicker of hesitation or a tell-tale tremor of a bluff. He found nothing but a terrifying, absolute calm. The man’s gut tightened; he turned to a junior nurse and signaled for her to take the card to the billing station immediately.
"Claire," the Administrator barked at the nurse who had previously been obstructing Samuel’s care, "go call security. Have four guards stationed at the end of the hall. If that card comes back declined or flagged as fraudulent, I want this brat detained immediately. We’ll let the Occult Crimes Unit sort him out fo
