the abandoned office.
The affair had never been the real betrayal.
Grant had mortgaged the company, endangered patients, and paid me with borrowed money so he could remove the only executive capable of stopping the scheme.
Outside, my phone began ringing.
A second Aegis One had collapsed in Arizona.
This time, a seventy-six-year-old patient had been inside it.
PART 4 — THE SECOND FALL
The second accident changed everything.
A Phoenix assisted-living facility had installed thirty Aegis One beds.
During a routine adjustment, one control module overheated, the brakes responded late,
