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Chapter 106: Dead ends

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last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-04-26 10:39:52

The next morning arrived without mercy, I guess toke moved really fast when you hadn't slept at all

After finding the business card, sleep became secondary because we knew who Drm Callahan was, was going to be a huge lead.

So we spent the entire night at Ethan’s kitchen island, with a shut load of ccold coffee, our open laptops and half-torn sticky notes.

At this point the name Dr..Callahan wasn't a lead, it was an obsession. We searched medical directories, university alumni pages, old oncology conferences, and even dark places in the internet that I wouldn't never think of goung to

But a new click opened a new rabbit hole with each search result ending in a wall.

No hospital.

No city.

And no fucking clue.

Ethan sat on the counter at one point, head in his hands, while I stared blankly at the glowing screen. Neither of us said it aloud, but the truth was there, and that this was a lost cause. Whoever this doctor was, they didn’t want to be found.

“This is hopeless,” he said.

But I
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