Chapter 108

Adrian POV

The moment I could walk without feeling like my stitches were pulling apart, like every step wasn’t going to tear me open again, I left my hospital room. I couldn’t stay there for another second. Sitting around, waiting for answers, waiting for someone else to tell me what was going on, had never been my style. That wasn’t who I was. If I wanted to understand Evelyn’s true connection to Davis, if I wanted to know what really tied them together, I had to start digging myself. I was supposed to meet up with Susan last week. We had it planned, but I couldn’t due to my injury, couldn’t even get out of bed then, so today I decided to take matters into my own hands, to do what I should have done already.

I made my way to the hospital’s archives, moving slowly but steadily, it was one of the oldest hospitals in D.C., the kind with records that went back decades, stored in rooms nobody thought about anymore. A place most doctors rarely had a reason to visit, a