For a brief moment, Derek remained trapped in Ethan’s grasp, his body hanging above the ground while his hands clutched desperately at Ethan’s wrist, and although fear had begun creeping into his eyes, he still refused to abandon the arrogance that had carried him into that place with so many men behind him.Ethan looked directly at him, his expression cold and unreadable.“Why should I let go of you when I have not even started with you?” Ethan asked, his voice low, steady, and filled with a restrained anger that made Derek’s confidence falter. “I have not even started with my plans for you. I am still contemplating what I am going to do to you after everything you did here, after bringing those men to threaten me, after believing that you could order them to destroy me and then simply walk away.”Derek’s eyes shifted uneasily, but Ethan continued before he could speak.“Should I just break your neck?” Ethan asked. “Should I just strangle you to death? Because nobody is even going to

Mia slowly shook her head, her eyes fixed on Derek as he continued struggling against the hospital staff.“It seems that is it,” she said quietly. “It seems he is going crazy.”Derek’s mother turned toward her in disbelief.“I told him countless times to stop smoking all those things he was taking,” Mia continued, her voice becoming more frustrated. “I warned him repeatedly, but he thought I was joking, didn’t he? And you even supported him. You told him that if those substances helped him remain calm and prevented him from doing anything out of proportion, then he should continue taking them.”She looked back at Derek, who was still trembling on the hospital bed.“Now look at what it has resulted in,” she said. “Just look at him. A few minutes ago, he was fine. He was completely normal. But now, what the hell is going on? What is this?”Her voice shook with embarrassment and fear.“This is a disgrace,” Mia continued. “How is Marcus going to look at me, or at our family, if he finds o

At that moment, Mia was deeply shocked by what Monda had suggested.“Could it be that it has something to do with Ethan?” Monda had said.Mia immediately shook her head.“What do you mean by that?” she asked, her voice filled with disbelief. “Why would you even suggest that this could be Ethan’s doing? What does Ethan have to do with Derek’s condition?”Monda remained silent.Mia continued, still struggling to understand the suggestion.“I am sure Ethan would not want anything to do with this family anymore,” she said. “Yes, we need him because of the formula and everything connected to it. We need him, and one way or another, we will have to go to him. But we have not even decided on the method yet. We have not decided exactly what we are going to do or how we are going to approach him.”Her eyes narrowed.“We all agreed that we would use Marcus,” Mia continued. “We agreed that Marcus would be the one to deal with Ethan. That was the plan we all had. So why are you suddenly suggesting

At that moment, when Derek heard his name and slowly lifted his head to look at them, Mia and her mother felt a small wave of relief.They had not expected him to respond.Only a few minutes earlier, Derek had been shouting, struggling, and begging the medical staff to stay away from him. His eyes had been filled with terror, and he had seemed unable to recognize anyone around him. But now, he was looking directly at them.It meant that he could still hear them.It meant that he might be able to answer their questions.Mia’s mother stepped closer to the hospital bed, her voice soft but urgent.“Who did this to you, Derek?” she asked. “Who hurt you? Who is responsible for what happened to you? Do you know the person who did this?”For several seconds, Derek did not say anything.Then, very slowly, he nodded his head.Mia and her mother immediately looked at each other.Their hearts beat faster.At least they were one step closer to the truth. Derek knew who had done this to him. He kne

Mia's mother did not hesitate for even a single moment once she saw the fire that had already begun to build in her daughter's eyes, and so she nodded her head slowly, deliberately, the way a woman nods when she has finally watched a plan she has been quietly nursing for weeks begin to take its proper shape in front of her, a plan she had never dared to speak aloud until this very moment, when circumstance itself had handed her the perfect opportunity to set it into motion."Just call him," she said, her voice steady but firm, carrying the weight of someone who had already decided the outcome long before the conversation even began. "Call him immediately. You have to call him and explain everything to him, explain it in a way that will make him understand exactly what has happened to your brother, in a way that will leave no room for doubt, no room for hesitation, no room for him to think that this is anything less than a serious matter that demands his full and immediate attention. Th