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Not My Patient Chapter 10
In the next interview room, Gloria was crying her eyes out."Detective, I swear I'm innocent! I just love my grandson and wanted to get him treated. He was sick, and I panicked!"Detective Reed pushed open the door, sat down across from her, and watched her without any expression."You're telling me this child is your biological grandson, correct?""Yes, yes, he's my own flesh and blood!""All right, then." Detective Reed took out a report and slid it across to her. "Then how do you explain this kinship test?"Gloria's hand froze in midair.She looked like she'd just seen a ghost."I... I found him."He was born unable to speak, his parents threw him away, and I took him in out of the goodness of my heart. I'm really not a kidnapper."Detective Reed set the paper down, his eyes going cold."Gloria Vance, you're still lying. We already traced this child's disappearance back to you."Gloria's lips trembled, and she couldn't say another word.In the end, the police establishe
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Gloria's eyes darted wildly, and her lips trembled without an answer coming out.In the middle of the standoff, a police cruiser came screaming up.Gloria tried to run, but I caught her arm before she could get away.Three Bellmont police officers came over. The one leading them was the middle-aged lead investigator, Detective Marcus Reed—Jenna's supervisor.Jenna came in behind him and gave me a reassuring look.She must have confirmed Gloria was the one behind the missing child and come straight to the scene before she even had a chance to text me back."Which one of you is Gloria Vance?"I pointed at the woman trying to slip away. "That's her, officer. I think she abducted this child."A gasp went through the crowd.The doctor spoke up too. "I'm an emergency physician at St. Alder Medical Center. This child appears to have suffered prolonged abuse, and right now he's showing signs of drug poisoning. He needs to be hospitalized immediately."Detective Reed glanced at the ch
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When Gloria realized the crowd was turning against her, she switched tactics.She threw herself down and started pounding the pavement with her fist, again and again."I don't want to live! You're all trying to drive me to my death! You think it's easy for a lonely old woman to raise a grandson? He's questioning whether the boy's even mine—he just doesn't want to pay up, so he's changing the subject!"She struck the ground hard enough to scrape her knuckles raw.Someone couldn't watch anymore and moved to pull her back. "Ma'am, don't do this. We can talk it out."Gloria shook the person off and wailed even louder. "I won't get up! Somebody's about to kill my grandson!"Right when Gloria was at her loudest, an ambulance pulled up outside Cedar Grove Residences.That's right—I'd already called 911.A doctor strode over, pushed through the crowd, and crouched down."Move aside, please. I'm a doctor."When Gloria heard someone claim to be a doctor, she froze for a second, then cl
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Gloria's face changed in an instant.She waved both hands in a panic. "No, no, no. Don't call the police. I don't want to blow this up any bigger than it needs to be."We're all neighbors here, and I don't want to leave a black mark on his future. If he just pays some compensation, I'll let the whole thing go."A chill ran through me as I looked at her.So this was what she'd been after all along."How much?" My voice stayed calm."Three thousand dollars." Gloria said it like the demand was perfectly reasonable. "Pay three thousand, and I won't take this any further."Three thousand dollars.I couldn't help letting out a laugh."Mrs. Vance, you came to my door last night saying your grandson had a fever and asking me to look at him. I told you I couldn't treat him and gave you forty dollars to take him to the ER. You took the money and left. I never gave that child a single pill. And now you're turning it around, saying I poisoned him, and demanding three thousand dollars?"G
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Before Jenna got back to me, Gloria was already stirring up more trouble.Early that weekend morning, shouting and crying broke out in the hallway outside my apartment.A sense of dread rose in me.I threw on my jacket and stepped out.Gloria was sitting outside my door holding the child, surrounded by at least twenty people.The boy's face was colorless, his lips were blue, and his eyes were barely open.Gloria's piercing wails carried through the whole building."My grandson! Eli, open your eyes and look at Grandma! You were fine last night. How could you end up like this overnight?"My chest tightened.Last night?Hadn't I given her forty dollars and told her to take him to the ER?The second Gloria saw me, she jumped up and rushed over with the child."Miles Douglas! You've got the nerve to show your face? Look what you've done!"Her accusation stunned me. "What did I do?""Don't play innocent." Gloria's voice got even louder. "I brought Eli to you last night. After y
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I came back to the doorway with my wallet but didn't hand her the money right away."Mrs. Vance, I need to ask you something."Gloria paused, and suspicion flickered in her eyes. "What?""Is this child really your grandson?"Her expression froze.Her mouth opened, but after just two seconds she rearranged her face into wounded disbelief. "Miles, what are you accusing me of? If he weren't my grandson, why would I be carrying him around at midnight? What would I get out of it?""I'm asking because the neighborhood-services coordinator says you live alone and have no son on record."Gloria's face changed.Her eyes darted away. She lowered her head and spoke through tears. "I got divorced years ago. My son went with his father. He had this boy with some woman who abandoned them, so the child got left with me."The explanation sounded plausible enough, but there was panic trembling under her words."Then why wouldn't you take him to a clinic during the day?""I already told you.
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