A chill crept through me.
Advertisement
"He said the doctors weren't sure she would survive."
Neither of us spoke.
Slowly, another piece of the puzzle began falling into place.
"He told me she pulled through at the last minute."
The room suddenly felt colder.
I remembered waking up to news that one of my daughters had died.
Olivia remembered waking up believing her daughter had almost died.
Advertisement
Neither story could be true.
But together, they formed something much worse.
The following week, we began searching for answers.
At first, we focused on hospital records. We assumed there would be a simple explanation.
There wasn't.
Files were missing, dates had been altered, and sections of both medical records appeared incomplete.
One doctor had passed away years earlier. Another had retired and moved out of state.
Advertisement
The deeper we dug, the stranger everything became.
Then Olivia discovered something neither of us expected.
