Storm: A Reed Security Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

Author:Giulia Lagomarsino [Lagomarsino, Giulia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Jessica

I tried calling Dr. Abner several times the next morning, but I was told that he was busy. I didn’t believe them. After Dr. Abner had practically shoved me out of his office, I knew that he didn’t really want to talk to me. So, I grabbed my purse and made the trip to the Brookdale Psychiatric Clinic to talk to him in person. This time, though, I gave the reason for the visit as a consultation for myself.

I was taken back to a small room that was meant to be comforting, but it gave me the creeps. It felt like at any moment, someone was going to walk through the door and haul me away in a straight jacket. The door opened and I stood instantly, wanting to make sure he didn’t try and run away. When he saw me, he sighed and shut the door, coming over to take a seat across from me.

“I thought I had seen the last of you, Ms. Finley.”

“You would have, but I needed to talk to you about something I discovered.”

His face grew curious and he leaned forward, lowering his voice. I mimicked his actions, assuming that he thought we might be overheard. “What did you find?”

“I found tunnels. I don’t know where they all went, but one led out of a room that was used for procedures. There was a gurney in the tunnel and it reeked of death and rot. That tunnel led to a dumbwaiter that was large enough to hold a gurney and when it was lowered to the lowest level, it opened to a room that had a giant oven.”

“A crematorium,” he said, staring at the floor. “It’s where they would have taken the bodies of the patients that the procedures didn’t work on.”

“Were you part of that?”

“No,” he said, almost like he was confused. “I always knew there was something strange going on there, but I think they knew I wouldn’t approve of their methods. I was never allowed full access to patients like other doctors.”

“Then why didn’t you report it?”

“I did my best for the patients I could. I thought many times of leaving, but in the end, if I could save even some of the patients, I felt I had to stay.”

“But…what did they tell you? I mean, people just disappeared. They had to have an answer for that.”

“Oh, there were all kinds of explanations. The patient had gone home. The patient committed suicide. The patient died in his sleep. The excuses went on and on, but I could never prove anything. I knew there were tunnels and I knew that nothing good happened in those tunnels.” He stared off at the wall for a moment and then shook his head. “Sometimes, if I worked at night, I would hear screaming that sounded like it was coming in from the woods on the wind. It was the eeriest sound I’d ever heard. Nights like that were the hardest to get through.”

“Why did you stay when you were transferred here? Is it still going on?”

“No,” he said, shaking his head.

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