Chương 4 - The House of Lies
Four weeks prior, Adeline Marsh had arrived at the Alfieri estate as a replacement night nurse. She had been hired through a third-party agency after Nico's previous three nurses had all abruptly quit or been fired by Camille.
Adeline had noticed something wrong on her very first night.
Nico Alfieri was a man made of iron. Even paralyzed, his mind was sharp, his instincts deadly. Yet every evening, within twenty minutes of taking his designated medication, his speech would slur, his vital signs would drop dangerously, and his lower limb reflexes—which showed faint electrical activity on his medical charts—would go completely dead.
Suspicious, Adeline had secretly taken two tablets from the silver tray three days ago and sent them to an independent toxicology lab run by a trusted former colleague at Chicago General Hospital.
The results had come back just two hours before the engagement party.
Standing in the grand foyer, Adeline looked at Camille, then down at Nico.
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"Those aren't nerve pain suppressants, Mr. Alfieri," Adeline said clearly, her voice echoing off the marble walls. "They are heavy neuromuscular blocking agents mixed with low-grade neurotoxins. They aren't healing you. They are actively preventing your spinal nerves from regenerating."
👉 Who was paying to keep the powerful mafia boss paralyzed in his own home?
