Chapter 179 - Charming young man (1/2)

In Sarah's hospital room only Aiden's faint whispers and beeping of the heart rate monitors can be heard.

Everyone is tense... they are waiting for Sarah to wake up. In the back of their heads, everyone knows that there is a chance that she will not wake up, but they refuse to let that thought take over and plunge them into desperation. They all decided silently that she will wake up. Any minute now… any minute…

Sophia's phone made a sound. She checked it and saw message from Felix: 'On my way.'

After some time, Felix entered the room and observed gloom atmosphere. Any glee he felt from his encounter with Mark was gone, he looked at Sophia with a heavy heart. She stood up and walked towards him. ”What did you find?”

Felix looked at the bed where Sarah is, and felt uncomfortable. He noticed that Stella is also looking at him, waiting for him to speak. Edward is sitting on a chair staring at Sarah, not paying attention to him.

Felix hesitated for some time before speaking. ”It's as JoAnna said: Device can move and administer medicine. But this is not a complete product. Movement is only initiated with a specific radio frequency and once initiated it can't be controlled.”

Three of them discussed the incident based on how Aiden and JoAnna previously explained. And then to that added what Felix found out.

Their conclusion is that someone from the crowd in the mall had a device that accidentally worked on a specific frequency and triggered the device (small robot) inside Sarah. They all agreed with this, since it's highly unlikely that Philip or someone associated with him would know that Sarah was at that mall at that time in order to start it on purpose.

”It seems we reached dead end... somehow it feels that we are missing something. Can this really be it? It was just an accident?” Stella commented.

”Let's leave it at this for now. What is important is for Sarah to recuperate.”, Sophia said.

They all agreed with this.

...

It was dark outside.

Sophia looked at Felix. ”Did you eat the food I sent?”

His eyes shifted for a moment. ”Yes.”

Sophia noticed and became suspicious. ”What did you eat?”

He didn't know how to respond and awkwardly smiled. Sophia shook her head confirming that he lied. He didn't eat. ”Let's go to cafeteria and grab something. You need to eat, and I'm also hungry.” Sophia looked at Stella and Edward. ”Do you want to join?”

Stella nodded. ”I will join. I have some questions for this young man.” Stella glanced at Felix.

Felix looked at Stella and felt intimidated.