Chapter 6 - Uncovering the Past
The remainder of the night vanished in a blur of tension and buried revelations. Ethan did not sleep. Instead, he retreated to his private corporate office on the ground floor, locking the heavy oak doors against the rest of the world. He powered up his secure desktop terminal, accessing the encrypted archives of Caldwell family medical records, legal trust directives, and old hospital logs from the private facility where his mother had spent her final six months. For two years, Ethan had believed the official narrative: that his mother had peacefully slipped away in her sleep while surrounded by high-priced medical professionals. But as he cross-referenced the nurse staffing rosters from that specific facility with Sarah’s nursing license number, a sickening pattern emerged. Sarah Miller hadn't just been a staff nurse; she had been the only registered nurse assigned to Evelyn Caldwell’s wing during the exact week the family trust was aggressively restructured by Marcus Vance. Furthermore, the daily logs showed that visiting privileges for Ethan had been systematically blocked by the administration under direct orders from the family board—orders signed by Ethan himself, though he had never seen the paperwork. Someone had forged his signature. Someone had used his authority to isolate his dying mother from the world, leaving her entirely at the mercy of corporate sharks who wanted her voting shares locked away. And Sarah had been the lone witness caught in the cross
