The doctor’s smile faded instantly. His tone shifted.

“Before anything else, I need to better understand the situation,” he said with clinical seriousness. “What exactly are you to her? And what happened to the patient?”

“I’m her boyfriend,” Edgar answered directly.

Beside him, Ísis looked away for a second and took a slow breath. She said nothing, but the tension written across her face made it obvious that the word boyfriend wasn’t entirely true.

Then she stepped forward.

“We were buying cand