Chapter 10

“Every breath you take, every move you make, every bond you break, and everything that concerns your steps I will discover, because no smile is perfect and every face has a mask…”

After everything returned to “normal”, without people following them or digging into their private lives, the trio decided to separate for a while. Brianna returned to Kiarra; Richthofen returned to the countryside where he grew up with Patrick, apparently someone was waiting for him at home and Patrick continued being Patrick between hospitals and consultations, operations and births. He continued with his initial plan, only it would no longer be necessary to kidnap twenty-five more women, because the women he kept on the third underground floor were enough, each one had a complete fetus and even though he had drained all the DNA from the mother of the fetus, he still managed to keep them stable and healthy until now; And as for Ami July, she survived and was placed, already sedated, in a conservation chamber where the mothers of unborn shapeshifters are kept, apparently Patrick was thinking of implanting a shapeshifter in her womb…

There was a person who kept a secret record of Ami July's data collections and it was her unrecognized sister, named Olive Rodriguez, who was born out of wedlock to Ami's parents, but got along well with her, and clearly, Olive had begun to suspect that investigating such an important personality as Patrick Tempus and his allies was dangerous, but after a month and no reports from her sister, she knew something was wrong, she never disconnected her phone and it was clearly a sign that her line had been deactivated a month ago, the same day that some photos of Patrick Tempus' patient files had arrived at her server and she, like a good sister, had diverted them to a platform coded by herself.

Now Patrick Tempus would feel firsthand what it was like to be a stalker without knowing him, because Olive Rodriguez would become his nightmare and his accomplices were not in the country to help him this time…

Little by little, Olive began to snoop around Patrick's work schedule and his social circle and discovered that his group of acquaintances or "friends" was very limited... most of them lived abroad, and even though his sister was obsessed with the possibility of a romance between Patrick and Brianna Bardot, nothing made sense of a relationship that was nothing more than purely professional between them, it was as if they were aware that someone could see them, but there was also the fact that Brianna had been engaged to Mark Lynn for years and they had a daughter together, even if the romance between them was fleeting or not very affectionate, it was much more real than the possibility between Patrick and Brianna.

Olive was breaking down Patrick's life chapter by chapter and leaving key or fleeting points of reality where Patrick was not seen for a certain amount of time, that is, he would spend two years without appearing or six months without leaving any trace... and unusual clues, such as the complex of not letting anyone into the mansion where he lived; this was strange, to say the least, in addition to the fact that his love life was non-existent, frankly no man or woman was known to this doctor; perhaps he was asexual or his pleasure was based on zoophilia, which she would probably never know.

The more thoroughly she looked for Patrick's records, school, academic, social, among others, the more it seemed to her that he was like any professional in his field, that is, fully dedicated to his career, something enviable, because nowadays no one is so dedicated to a profession and the few who are are practically counted...