Chapter 7 - The Man Who Had Been Studying My Son Finally Appeared—and He Called Marcus by a Name I Had Never Heard BeforeWe found the laboratory beneath an abandoned medical center.
Dominic led the way.
The rooms contained files.
Hundreds of them.
Children.
Adults.
Medical experiments.
Marcus's photograph was on the wall.
I nearly collapsed.
Dominic caught me.
“Don't look.”
“I need to.”
His photograph was labeled:
SUBJECT M-17.
My hands shook.
“What does that mean?”
A voice answered behind us.
“It means your son was never supposed to be born.”
A man stepped into the room.
Dr. Adrian Vale.
He had worked at the hospital where Marcus was born.
He looked at my son.
“Hello, Marcus.”
Marcus hid behind me.
Dr. Vale smiled.
“You don't remember me.”
Dominic raised his gun.
“Explain.”
Vale laughed.
“You think this is about your hearing?”
Dominic's eyes narrowed.
“No.”
“This is about what your body revealed.”
He explained that Dominic's deafness had been used as an experiment.
The device had been designed to interfere with specific neural pathways.
Marcus had noticed it because his vision processed reflective surfaces differently.
I stared.
“You experimented on Dominic?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“To test whether the device could remain undetected.”
Dominic's face became cold.
“And my father funded you.”
Vale smiled.
“Your father funded everything.”
Then Marcus pointed.
“Mommy.”
I looked.
He was pointing toward the ceiling.
“Camera.”
Dominic looked up.
There were dozens.
Vale smiled.
May you like
“Your son really is remarkable.”
Then the lights went out.
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