Chapter 1 - The Heartbreak in Room 402
Inside the quiet pediatric hospital room, soft medical monitors hummed continuously under dim fluorescent lighting. Colorful animal decals lined the light blue walls, contrasting sharply with the bleak reality of the room.
Linda sat motionless by the side of the hospital bed, clutching her sleeping seven-year-old son's cold, fragile hand. Her hair was pulled back into a neat bun, and she still wore her simple black maid uniform with a white apron. Tears streamed silently down her face as her chest heaved with suppressed sobs.
Her son, Keo, lay pale and completely bald against the white sheets, an oxygen cannula resting under his nose. In his weak, tiny right hand, he loosely held a scuffed blue action figure toy.
"Eighty thousand dollars by Friday..." Linda whispered in a choked, desperate voice to the empty air, her heart shattering into a thousand pieces. "I have nothing left to sell..."
Unbeknownst to Linda, a tall, imposing shadow stood completely still near the open doorway inside the room.
Mr. Gallo, the feared mafia lord of the city, stood silently in the doorway. Built like a powerhouse with detailed dark tattoos creeping up his forearms under his rolled-up black button-down shirt, his dark eyes narrowed as he watched the scene unfold.
His initial cold suspicion slowly melted into profound shock and heavy guilt as he stared directly at the frail, bald boy fighting for every breath.
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Mr. Gallo stared at the boy, his jaw tightening as an unyielding realization hit him hard. She was cleaning blood off his floors while her own son was dying.
👉 Why had Mr. Gallo secretly followed his maid all the way to the pediatric ward tonight?
