The Boy Who Save Billionaire's infant son

Chapter 3: Marina's File

Walter stepped in front of Ethan.

He was old and tired, but no one mistook him for weak. Celeste knew him. William saw that at once.

"Someone explain this," William demanded.

Walter kept his eyes on Celeste. "Ask your wife about the Horizon Ward."

The doctor went pale.

William turned. "What is the Horizon Ward?"

"An old research division," the doctor said. "Closed years ago."

Walter laughed bitterly. "Closed means hidden."

Celeste stayed calm. "Do not let an old man's fear twist the truth. Ethan saved Noah. That means we must protect him and understand him."

Walter snapped, "That is how it started with Marina."

Ethan stiffened at his mother's name.

Walter looked at him, pain in his eyes. "Your mother had the gift too. Smaller than yours. She could pull pain from animals, sometimes people. A fever would break after she touched a child. But every time, it took something from her."

Ethan touched the dried blood under his nose.

"Marina was seventeen when a Carter Foundation doctor found her," Walter continued. "They promised treatment and protection. I believed them. They took her into the Horizon Ward."

Celeste said, "She volunteered."

"She was a child."

"What happened to Marina?" William asked.

No one answered at first.

Then Celeste said quietly, "She gave birth to Ethan. Then her body failed."

Walter's voice broke. "Because you made her use the gift again and again."

William turned to Celeste in horror.

At that moment, the room lights flickered.

A low hum came from behind the walls. The door locked from outside.

Celeste stepped back, and now her fear was not directed at Ethan.

A speaker crackled overhead.

An old man's voice filled the room.

"Celeste, you should have told me the Reed boy was here."

William went pale.

"Father?"

Walter grabbed Ethan's wrist.

Celeste looked toward the ceiling, drained of color.

Ethan understood then.

The person hunting his family was not in the room.

He owned it.