Chapter 2 - Dominic Ordered Every Doctor to Return—Then One Photograph Proved His Deafness Had Never Been an AccidentI expected to be fired.
Instead, I was escorted to a private bedroom on the second floor.
Marcus sat on the bed playing with wooden blocks.
I stood beside the window, watching guards move through the mansion.
My hands were shaking.
I had never seen Dominic frightened before.
Everyone feared him.
Yet one tiny object had turned him into a man searching desperately for answers.
Thirty minutes later, the door opened.
Dominic walked in.
He had changed into a dark shirt.
His hair was still damp from a shower.
But his expression was different.
Focused.
Cold.
He looked at Marcus.
Then at me.
“What's your name?”
“Emily.”
“And your son?”
“Marcus.”
“How old?”
“Three.”
Dominic nodded.
Then he crouched.
Marcus looked at him.
“Do you hear me?”
Marcus smiled.
“Yes.”
Dominic actually laughed.
It was quiet.
Almost broken.
“You don't know what you've done, little man.”
Marcus shrugged.
“I took out the bug.”
Dominic glanced at me.
“Has he always noticed things other people don't?”
I smiled nervously.
“He notices everything.”
Dominic looked at the device on the table.
“I need to know what this is.”
“I don't know.”
“Neither do I.”
He pressed a button.
A man entered.
“Bring Dr. Mercer.”
The doctor arrived twenty minutes later.
He was pale.
He had been Dominic's personal physician for years.
When he saw the device, he stopped.
Dominic noticed.
“You recognize it.”
“No.”
“You hesitated.”
“I was surprised.”
Dominic stepped closer.
“Look at me.”
The doctor did.
“You told me three years ago that my hearing loss was permanent.”
“Yes.”
“You said there was nothing physically obstructing my ear.”
“Yes.”
Dominic placed the device in his palm.
“So explain this.”
The doctor stared at it.
“I can't.”
Dominic smiled.
“That's the wrong answer.”
The doctor swallowed.
“Let me examine it.”
“No.”
Dominic turned toward me.
“Marcus found it.”
He looked at my son.
“I think he should be the one who decides.”
Marcus was busy stacking blocks.
Dominic's expression softened.
Then the softness disappeared.
“Everyone out.”
The doctor left.
I stayed.
Dominic looked at me.
“You were here the night I lost my hearing?”
“No.”
“You've worked here how long?”
“Eight months.”
“Then you don't know what happened.”
“No.”
“Good.”
He opened a file.
Inside were old photographs.
One showed Dominic leaving a nightclub.
Another showed him entering a car.
Then a third.
A hospital.
I stared.
“What's that?”
“The night everything changed.”
He pointed.
“I was attacked.”
I looked closer.
A dark figure stood behind him.
“Who is that?”
“We never identified him.”
Dominic turned another page.
“Two days later, my hearing disappeared.”
I looked at the medical scan.
There was no visible damage.
No injury.
Nothing.
“Doctors said it was neurological.”
Dominic shook his head.
“They were wrong.”
He lifted the device.
“This was inside my ear.”
My stomach twisted.
“How could nobody find it?”
“Because whoever placed it there knew exactly what they were doing.”
A guard entered.
“Boss.”
Dominic turned.
“What?”
“We found the old surveillance files.”
Dominic's face changed.
“Bring them.”
The guard placed a laptop on the table.
Video footage began playing.
Three years ago.
Hospital corridor.
Dominic unconscious.
A nurse entered.
Then another man.
He wore a doctor's coat.
His face was partially hidden.
He approached Dominic's bed.
The video froze.
Dominic leaned closer.
The man's wrist was visible.
A silver watch.
Dominic's eyes narrowed.
“I know that watch.”
“Who is he?”
Dominic didn't answer.
He looked at me.
“Victor.”
My heart sank.
“What?”
“Victor gave me that watch.”
I stared at the screen.
“Are you saying Victor put the device in your ear?”
“No.”
Dominic's voice became colder.
“I'm saying he was there.”
Then the door opened.
Victor walked inside.
Dominic closed the laptop.
“Sir, the doctors are waiting.”
Dominic smiled.
“Good.”
Victor looked at me.
“Why is she still here?”
Dominic didn't answer.
Victor repeated,
“Sir?”
Dominic looked him directly in the eyes.
“Because she's the only person in this house who brought me the truth.”
Victor's jaw tightened.
Dominic continued.
“And because from tonight onward, nobody leaves this mansion without my permission.”
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Victor froze.
The doors behind him locked.
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