His expression changed.
Better.
Much better?
He nodded slowly.
Doctors said the climate change could have helped.
I smiled.
It wasn’t the weather.
That same day I asked for something strange.
That they temporarily shut down the automated ventilation system of the children's wing.
Vincent hesitated.
If there is a problem, I want to know.
“Precisely.
Dr. Blake showed up when he heard what we were doing.
This is a waste of time.
I looked at him.
“Are you sure?”
“Completely.
“Then you won’t have a problem with us checking everything.
His jaw tightened.
Claire, you don’t understand how medicine works.
“And you seem to forget that eighteen months of treatments also found no answers.
The silence was immediate.
Vincent didn't intervene.
For the first time, he let someone question the doctor he had hired.
A technician arrived that afternoon.
He checked the ducts.
The filters.
