ALFRED POV

I needed to be certain and that’s the only thing controlling my reasoning as we took a flight of stairs, three at a time, down the hallway leading to the clinic ward. The polished floors and white drapes hanging on the walls combined with the smell of drugs stamped in the air making it impossible for a stranger not to identify the place even without a sign post.

I could hear cries of pain from a distance as I entered the head physician’s office with Andre and Marcus following closely behind— and that intensified my desire to end it all.

“Every body, leave!” Andre thundered and the nurses...