Inside were files. Medical records, therapy notes, hospital admissions. Maeve pulled the first one, Miranda Welch's psychiatric history. Diagnoses, medications, hospitalizations dating back years before she'd met Carter.
The second file, Sophia Reeves. Similar pattern. Mental illness, suicide attempts, years of treatment.
The third, Annika Patel. Also mentally ill, with a restraining order against her own father for abuse.
"They were all sick before they met me," Carter said, voice rough. "I didn't break them. They were already broken. I just... couldn't fix them. No matter how hard I tried."
Maeve flipped through the files, looking for something, anything that suggested Carter had caused their conditions. But there was nothing. Just documentation of troubled women who'd happened into
