Chapter 6 - The Missing Hospital Admission Records
Dawn brought gray skies and a biting wind that rattled the reinforced windowpanes of the master suite like ghostly fingers.
Willa slipped out of the room while Mr. Crowley was occupied downstairs, moving silently through the sprawling second-floor east wing.
She unlocked the heavy door to Everett’s private study using a spare key she had found hanging behind the butler’s pantry board.
The room smelled of aged leather, pipe tobacco, and expensive bourbon, housing rows of floor-to-ceiling mahogany bookshelves filled with rare volumes.
She sat at the massive oak desk, booted up Everett’s secure encrypted terminal, and bypassed the primary firewall using an administrative override code.
Her fingers flew across the mechanical keyboard as she searched for the initial emergency admission records from the night of Everett’s accident.
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The screen blinked, displaying a locked PDF file marked Confidential Medical Assessment – St. Ambrose Emergency Trauma Unit.
She entered her old nurse credentials, watching in absolute shock as the encryption crumbled before her authorized clinical clearance level.
