Chapter 4

The news hit me the moment I stepped through the hospital doors.

Nearby, a nurse was whispering to her colleague, "It's her brother. They said he wandered out, got hit by a car, and died before the paramedics arrived."

My knees buckled. Numbness spread through my limbs as I dragged myself down to the morgue.

Andrew lay on the cold steel table, dried blood smeared across his face. His hospital gown was torn, showing where broken bones had pierced through the fabric. The image burned itself into my mind, a permanent nightmare.

Memories flooded back of him as a little…