“I thought about it,” he admitted honestly, because lying felt heavier than truth in that moment.
“Then why didn’t you?”
Leo hesitated, his fingers tightening slightly around the strap again, his grandfather’s words rising once more in his mind.
“My grandfather says,” Leo began slowly, choosing each word carefully, “if you take what isn’t yours, you stop seeing things clearly.”
Richard exhaled sharply, the weight of that sentence landing deeper than anything the doctors had said all day.
Because he knew—
There were things he had chosen not to see.
Things he had ignored.
Choices he had made that led to this moment.
The plastic fragment.
The untraceable object.
Something that didn’t belong in a controlled, perfect environment built by money and influence.
His jaw tightened.
“Where did that come from?” he asked suddenly, turning toward the doctors, his tone shifting again, sharper now, searching for something darker.
The room quieted.
Because now—
The question wasn’t about saving a life anymore.
It was about how it had almost been taken.
And for the first time—
Richard realized something far more dangerous than losing his son.
He realized—
He might have trusted the wrong people.
The room shifted again, but not with panic this time, instead with something colder, something that crept in quietly and settled deep into every breath taken.
No one spoke immediately, because the question Richard had asked carried consequences no one was ready to face in that moment.
The chief physician cleared his throat, trying to steady the situation, trying to bring it back into something clinical, something manageable, something safe.
“Sometimes,” he began carefully, “foreign materials can enter through manufacturing defects in feeding equipment or—”
“No,” Richard cut him off, his voice low but firm, the kind that didn’t need volume to carry authority.
“That didn’t sound like an accident.”
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