The Prescription That Did Not Exist
Chapter 02 - The Prescription That Did Not Exist
An ambulance rushed Claire to the hospital.
Doctors stabilized both her and the baby, but blood tests revealed repeated exposure to a powerful sedative. In small doses, it caused weakness, memory loss, and temporary loss of muscle control. In larger doses, it could stop breathing.
Claire had not been losing the use of her legs naturally.
She had been drugged.
Detective Laura Bennett sealed the vial as evidence and questioned Margaret, who claimed Dr. Wallace had prescribed the medication. Dr. Wallace denied it immediately.
The label was fake.
Ethan returned to the mansion with police and found a stack of legal papers in Margaret’s study. The documents declared Claire mentally incompetent and transferred control of her late father’s company to Ethan as guardian.
But Ethan had never seen them.
His signature had been copied.
The final page required Claire’s signature.
That explained the words on the vial.
Margaret had planned to keep Claire weak until she signed away her inheritance. If Claire refused, the “final dose” would make her permanently unable to challenge the transfer.
Olivia finally agreed to talk.
She admitted Margaret had hired her privately and ordered her to administer the medication. Olivia had secretly reduced the doses after realizing Claire was pregnant, but fear kept her silent.
“I thought I was protecting her by giving less,” Olivia said.
Claire looked at her from the hospital bed. “You were still giving it.”
Olivia lowered her head.
Then she revealed something worse.
Margaret was not acting alone.
Every week, someone collected Claire’s medical charts and replaced them with falsified reports showing progressive neurological disease. Olivia never saw the person’s face, but he wore a silver ring engraved with the Westmoor crest.
Ethan owned no such ring.
His late father had worn one.
The only other person who possessed it was Ethan’s uncle, Richard Westmoor—the company’s chief financial officer.
Richard had encouraged Ethan to travel to London for an “emergency merger” on the same week Claire was supposed to sign the papers.
Detective Bennett searched Richard’s office.
It was empty.
His computer had been erased, but a hidden camera recorded him leaving with several boxes hours before Ethan returned.
One box was marked:
BENNETT TRUST — ORIGINAL FILES.
Claire’s father had created that trust before his death.
If Richard had the originals, he could rewrite the ownership of the company.
Then Claire received an anonymous message on her hospital phone.
A photograph showed Richard standing inside an abandoned Westmoor clinic.
Beside him was Dr. Wallace.
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The message read:
COME ALONE, OR THE RECORDS BURN.
