Chapter 19 - Shadows at Chicago General
A pouring rain drenched Chicago General Hospital when Grant and Ruth arrived later that afternoon. The sterile smell of the long, dim corridors dragged them back into the nightmare of ten months past.
Ruth led Grant toward the archives room. But as they reached the door, they froze: the room was ransacked, file drawers pried open and papers scattered everywhere.
"Someone got here before us!" Ruth gasped.
Clack.
Heavy, hurried footsteps echoed down the far end of the hallway. Grant immediately signaled his bodyguards over his radio, while Ruth sprinted toward the staff breakroom. She found Sarah—the nurse—cowering in the corner, clutching her arm with a bruised face.
"Ruth... is that you?" Sarah burst into tears upon seeing her old friend. "An hour ago, a group of thugs broke in. They tried to force me to hand over the physical chart logs for Ward 4 from last year. They threatened my family..."
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"Did you give it to them?" Grant demanded as he rolled his chair into the room, his voice deep and authoritative.
Sarah looked at Grant, then reached inside her shirt to pull out a small flash drive. "I... I digitally scanned the original handwritten log sheets before they were transferred. I knew something was wrong that night, so I kept a backup hidden..."
