The medical report from the annex reached Damien before the boat fully tied to the dock.Richard was alive, but only just. The field team had stabilized a sudden collapse—irregular rhythm, dropping blood pressure, no external injury. The operator who had been watching him repeated the same detail each time he was asked: Richard had looked at the time, smiled as if a private schedule had been met, and then gone down hard.Damien stood on the concrete apron with the waterproof case under his arm and the river still moving behind him. The word “toxin” hung in the open channel without anyone needing to push it further. Richard had always preferred solutions that left few clean edges. A final self-administered exit, timed to deny the board and the courts a living defendant, fit the pattern too well to ignore.Gabriel’s voice stayed level. “They’re moving him to a secure medical unit under full guard. No family visitors, no private physicians. If it’s a toxin, the hospital will find it. it’
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