Chapter 20.
Elara sat on the edge of the bed, her eyes staring at the stack of documents she had just retrieved from the Vale family's personal file drawer. Her heart was beating fast, and her hands were shaking as she opened the first folder. She knew there was something inside that would change everything and it felt right.
Among the dusty documents were old medical records, files that seemed to have been neatly kept by the family hospital. Elara turned page after page, reading the names, dates, and medical procedures recorded in bold ink. She stopped at one note that made her blood suddenly freeze.
"Damien... this surgery... was he the only one who had that surgery?" she whispered softly, swallowing.
The facts were shocking. There was a surgical procedure that was only performed on
