Chapter 3

The hospital, predictably, went into full meltdown mode. A state-of-the-art ultrasound machine had literally been fried by my stomach. It became the biggest medical mystery since the clinic's establishment.

Ryker was now clutching a stack of lab reports, his hands trembling violently.

"Ms. Bell... you..."

He looked at me as if I had just sprouted a second head.

"Your hormone levels are completely off the charts. They are a hundred times higher than the maximum limit our machines can read. We are entirely helpless here. Your condition has officially bypassed the boundaries of modern medicine."

A hundred times? It seemed…