THE FIRST CRACK
Anthony didn't sleep.
Not after the message.
Not after reading those words.
Not after spending three hours staring at his phone like it contained the answers to every question he'd carried for fifteen years.
If you want the truth about your medical records, stop ignoring the signs.
The message haunted him.
Because it touched a wound he never discussed.
A wound he barely allowed himself to think about.
The diagnosis.
The verdict.
The sentence that had shaped his entire life.
Sterile.
The word echoed through his mind.
Again.
And again.
And again.
Until dawn finally arrived.
By eight o'clock the following morning, Anthony was sitting in his office.
The message displayed on his computer screen.
His assistant stood ne
