Petra shut the door tight once Matts entered the office. She walked towards her lab coat stand and pulled off her lab coat, hanging it up on the coat wall hanger.
"There is an important issue I need to discuss with you," Petra stated, sitting down calmly on her seat.
"What is it?"
"Something is going on in the hospital that is very suspicious," Matts drew his seat forward in a bid to know what she was talking about.
"Tell me, what is it." Dr. Matthew Kings asked in a confused state.
"Remember the time where you were to make a surgical operation on the president?" Petra asked, with Matts nodding his head in response.
"Take a look at this!" She brought out the lethal injection from her lab coat, and the moment Matts laid eyes on it, he gasped.
"What in the world! How did this get here?" He asked, holding up the syringe in hand and studying it closely.
"If I have an answer to that, I would have told you. But I think that whoever is behind this is also behind the numerous incidents happening."
"Wait a minute, and you mean to tell me that this is what nearly killed the president?" Matts asked, passing the syringe back to Petra.
"The person who had administered this to him did not fully administer it; thus, he was able to survive."
"Lethal injections are not to be found in the hospital. They are mostly for execution purposes. Whoever is behind this knows his onions very well," Matts commented.
"Not only that, I received an anonymous call days ago, which the caller was telling me of the deadly politics going on in the hospital. It may seem as there is a quest amongst the doctors to stay relevant."
"This is more serious than I had thought it would be, so what are we going to do about it?"
"There is no option at the moment. I thought of having to inform Mrs. Walker about it, but seeing that she was also a victim of this, it will take days before she fully recovers."
"I think I have a suspect," Matts revealed, causing Petra to pay close attention to him, saying;
"Who is your suspect?" She asked eagerly.
"You may think I am lying, but I feel Mitchell has something to do with this," Dr. Matt said.
Petra went into deep thought about it.
"I mean doesn't it look logical that she doesn't like us? Look at her testimony before the board, and do I need to remind you she brought this exact lethal injection before the board? How did she get it?"
Petra knew that Matt had a point, but she couldn't prove it with hardcore facts?
"What do you propose?"
"I think we should hire a private investigator for this mystery. We cannot just announce that Mitchell did it precisely. I was right there in the ER, I did the surgery on Thomas, and they all watched."
"True, but we must be wary of her," Matts warned.
***
Meanwhile, Adrian, who had overheard Lee, his coworker, talking with Lewis, knew that it would be trouble if the suspect were exposed. He began to devise a wicked plan in his heart.
He walked straight up to the suspect's office while the latter was busy revising some of the document.
"Good to see you, Mr. Adrian; how may I be of help?" He asked
"I can only be of help to you right now," Adrian indicated, causing the suspect to look up at him sternly.
"And what is that supposed to mean?"
"I know of all your sinister activities in the hospital. I will have you know that there was implanted CCTV footage in all the wards, as recently instructed by Mrs. Walker. I am aware of how you manipulated your way into her ward and injected her with a substance, " He gasped upon hearing this; never had he imagined that someone would be caught up with him.
"But if I were the only one that knows of this act of yours, it would have been better. Lewis, my Coworker's friend and an intern in this hospital is fully aware of this. They both plan on going to tell Petra Hills about this"
"Impossible!" The devil yells in anguish.
"Yes, it is the reality of things at the moment. I will have you know that if Miss Petra Hills lays eyes on the footage, it would be detrimental to your status."
"Why are you telling me all this?" He asked, staring at Adrian suspiciously.
"It is straightforward; I want a pay for the information I just dished out to you, and I want the payment to be enormous."
"How much are we looking at here?" He asked once again, bringing out his checkbook.
"A hundred thousand dollars would do," He looked up at Adrian, who didn't show any remorse upon calling such an outrageous amount.
"That is a huge amount of money."
"Would you want your reputation in this hospital damaged and Petra Hills having to fire you from your job?"
"How did you know she was the CEO?" He asked.
"Because I have the footage of the board meeting too. There are CCTV cameras everywhere. However, I will have you know that I have disabled the footage to this place."
"Fine...here take this. I hope it is enough to seal your mouth off?" He handed Adrian the cheque.
"You shouldn't be worried about me, worry about the footage being released," Adrian finished off and left the office.
He knew that it would be a significant problem if the footage were released, and he needed to stop it. He looked at the device that Adrian had dropped.
Once he picked it up, he was shocked to see himself, as Adrian had told him, administering the lethal injection to Mrs. Walker.
What shocked him the most was the next slide he saw after seeing himself. It was a slide of Clarke and Mitchell, administering a strange substance also to Thomas, and what shocked him the most was the precision used in carrying it out.
He needed to stop Lewis and Lee from meeting up with Petra, or he will be doomed. Immediately, he picked up his phone and called Mitchell and Clark.
"Come to my office at once!"
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"Honey, we are going to be late!"
Grey stated out loud. He has been standing by his car for the past 45 minutes, waiting for his wife and son to get down with their luggage. He knew women always took their time while getting ready for any trip, but it would be best if they also learned to manage their time.
Grey planned on relocating his family to Gold city due to his recent transfer from his place of work, so it dawned on him that he couldn't leave his beloved family thus decided it was time to relocate.
"Sorry I am late; Petra caused the major delay, though. I have my fair share," Said his wife.
"You know I can't believe we are leaving this place, though we would always stay, or maybe it is because I have gotten attached to this place,"
Grey just smiled at the expression on his wife's face. Still on the highway alone, Grey noticed a particular car following them from the beginning of the trip, and he became suspicious.
"Babe, notice that car has been on our trail since we began this trip?" his wife checked the said car through the mirror and confirmed it
"Maybe the driver is also headed for the airport too; you never can tell," the wife said with a shrug, but Grey was not convinced.
As he checked his review mirror, he noticed the car had accelerated its movement and was coming fast at them, so he slowed down a bit for the car to go past them.
The car passed them and swerved, intending to stop Grey's car from further movement. Grey had to hold the breaks to prevent a severe collision from happening. The car opened, and a mystery guy with a hat on his head approached them slowly. Grey thought that the man was crazy and unlocked his door, intending to confront the man for his careless act.
As Grey tried to speak, he felt a hot object pierce through his skin, and he could feel the world falling apart. He heard a faint cry but could not understand what was happening, for he was gradually losing strength.
With a blurry vision, Grey noticed blood was gushing out of his stomach profusely, and he realized that he had just been shot by a mystery man who had a dark mask on his face.