The Tyrant's Return : From Beggar to Sovereign

Chapter 14: The Secret in the Blood

The grand black luxury car smoothy glided into the emergency parking lot of the Cresthaven General Hospital. The rain was still beating down hard on the glass windows, making a loud clicking sound.

The door of the car swung open, and Ethan Vance stepped out onto the wet asphalt. He did not care about the rain wetting his expensive midnight blue suit. His handsome face was completely hard, his jaw set in a tight line, and his eyes burned with a terrifying, silent fire.

Thomas followed right behind him, holding a large black umbrella over Ethan's head. "Young Master," Thomas whispered, his voice trembling slightly. "Captain Iron has secured the room. The rat has been caught in the trap."

Ethan did not say a single word. He marched straight through the sliding glass doors of the hospital entrance. The people in the lobby quickly moved out of his way because his presence was so cold and commanding. He took the private elevator directly up to the third floor, walking down the long white corridor until he reached Room 308.

Inside the private room, Beatrice Miller was pinned flat against the cold tile floor. Captain Iron had his heavy, solid boot pressed firmly onto her back, keeping her completely stuck. The white nurse uniform she wore was torn and covered in dirt, and her blue surgical mask had been ripped off her face. Her eyes were wide, bloodshot, and filled with a wild, animal fear.

The moment Ethan stepped into the room, Beatrice began to scream like a madwoman.

"Ethan! You beggar! Tell this giant animal to get his foot off my back! Do you know who I am? I am your mother in law! You cannot treat me like this!"

Ethan walked over slowly, his heavy black shoes stopping just inches away from her face.

He looked down at her with total disgust. "You are not my mother in law. You are just a criminal who tried to kill an innocent child."

"I did nothing!" Beatrice lied loudly, her spit flying onto the floor. "I just came here to check on the little brat! You have no proof! The police will never believe a low life like you!"

Ethan turned his head slightly toward Thomas. "Is the media downstairs?"

"Yes, Chairman," Thomas replied with a deep bow. "Every major television network and newspaper reporter in the city is waiting in the main lobby.

They heard a rumor that a major corporate criminal was caught inside the hospital."

"Good," Ethan said, his voice sounding like a slice of sharp ice. "Drag her down. Let the entire world see the true face of the Miller family."

Captain Iron grabbed Beatrice by the collar of her stolen nurse uniform and yanked her off the floor with one arm. He dragged her out of the room like a heavy bag of trash. Beatrice kicked her legs and screamed curses, but she was completely powerless against the giant bodyguard.

Downstairs in the main lobby, the bright lights of fifty cameras flashed rapidly. The reporters were shouting questions, holding up their microphones as Captain Iron pushed Beatrice through the crowd. The police officers were already waiting at the entrance with steel handcuffs.

"Look over here!" a reporter shouted into a television camera. "This is Beatrice Miller, the head of the Miller Group! She was just caught hiding in a disguise, trying to pull the life support wires of a young girl! The Miller family is completely finished!"

Beatrice tried to cover her face with her shaking hands, but the police officers grabbed her wrists and snapped the tight steel cuffs around them. They pushed her into the back of a cold police van, slamming the metal doors shut. Her wealth was gone, her mansion was gone, and now her freedom was gone forever.

Ethan stood at the top of the hospital stairs, watching the police van drive away into the heavy rain. He felt no pity for her. She had tried to steal his sister's breath, so she deserved to rot in a dark cell for the rest of her life.

As the crowd of reporters began to disperse, a middle aged man in a long white doctor's coat walked up behind Ethan. This was Dr. Evans, the chief medical director of the elite hospital. He had been looking after Lily for the past twelve months. His face was incredibly pale, and he was holding a thick manila folder against his chest with white, shaking fingers.

"Chairman Vance," Dr. Evans said, his voice low and trembling with absolute anxiety.

Ethan turned around, his eyes narrowing. "What is it, Doctor? Is my sister okay? Did that wicked woman hurt her?"

"No, sir," Dr. Evans said, looking around the hallway nervously to make sure nobody was listening to them. He swallowed hard, his throat moving tightly. "Your sister is perfectly physically safe from tonight's event. Captain Iron stopped the woman before she could touch any of the electrical wires.

But something else has happened. I need to talk to you in private right now. Please come to my office."

Ethan’s heart missed a beat. A dark, heavy feeling grew deep inside his stomach. He nodded once and followed Dr. Evans down a side hallway, entering a large, quiet office filled with medical books and computer screens.

Dr. Evans closed the heavy wooden door and locked it from the inside. He walked over to his desk, placed the thick manila folder down on the surface, and opened it. Inside the folder were multiple sheets of paper covered in complex medical graphs and bright red warning stamps.

"Sir, we ran a brand new, highly advanced blood panel test on your sister this morning," Dr. Evans began, his voice dropping down to a very soft, tense whisper. "We used the new laboratory machines that your Vance Group just donated to our facility.

These machines can find tiny things in the blood that normal hospital tests can never see."

Ethan stepped closer to the desk, his hands clenching into tight fists inside his suit pockets. "Speak clearly, Doctor. Do not use medical riddles with me. What did you find in Lily's blood?"

Dr. Evans pointed his trembling finger at a long list of chemical numbers on the page. The numbers were glowing bright red on his computer screen.

"For the past year, we all believed that Lily fell into this deep coma because of a sudden, tragic car accident on the slippery street," Dr. Evans whispered, his eyes looking straight into Ethan’s dark stare.

The room became so quiet that the only sound left was the rain hitting the glass window pane outside. Ethan's body went completely stiff as he waited for the doctor's next words.

The doctor whispers: "Sir, your sister’s coma wasn’t an accident. She was slowly poisoned over two years."