Chapter 3 - Auditing the Shadows
With Gideon away handling urgent syndicate matters in the city, Elena escalated her campaign, marching into my room to demand my immediate resignation under the threat of fabricated theft charges. Instead of cowering, I met her icy glare head-on, using the subtle leverage of Gideon’s growing suspicion regarding the olive oil trap to hold my ground. While Elena stormed out in a fury, vowing to throw me out on the street by nightfall, Walter the butler slipped back into my room with a locked metal box containing the estate’s true historical service logs—documents Elena had tried to scrub. Working late into the night with one good hand, I cross-referenced the nursing turnover rates with financial ledgers and pharmacy requisitions, uncovering a staggering web of medical tampering. Elena hadn't just been hazing nurses; she had been systematically altering Gideon’s prescription dosages to keep him weak, disoriented, and dependent on her oversight while she quietly embezzled millions from his front companies. The oil on the back stairs was no longer just an isolated murder attempt; it was the frantic panic of a criminal whose financial and domestic fraud was finally about to be audited by a nurse with nothing left to lose.
