Chapter 6
While Julian spoke frantically on the phone, Chloe quietly descended the grand staircase to retrieve a clean blanket from the lower linen closet.
Passing by the open door of Rose’s private study, she noticed a heavy mahogany drawer pulled slightly ajar on the antique desk.
Inside rested an unsealed manila folder bearing a red psychiatric evaluation stamp from a high-security facility in Boston.
Driven by an overwhelming sense of foreboding, Chloe stepped into the silent study and pulled the medical file from the drawer.
Her green eyes scanned the typewritten pages detailing Rose’s severe postpartum psychosis and suppressed hereditary disorders.
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Scrawled across the final margin in bright red ink was a terrifying handwritten warning from a previous physician: *Patient poses a severe, immediate danger to any infant under her care.*
Chloe’s breath caught in her throat as she realized Julian had been kept completely in the dark about his wife's dangerous medical history.
