Rhett’s POV
From the moment Aria disappeared, I knew it wasn’t an accident.
She vanished in a hospital,
A place that’s supposed to be the safest.
And yet—right when she was about to come out of the examination room, the director stopped me.
He said there was something “important.”
I paused.
That was my mistake.
Looking back now, everything he said was meaningless nonsense.
Project approvals.
Equipment upgrades.
Requests for more investment.
Even a pointless line of small talk.
But in those few minutes—
Aria was gone.
I immediately went to check the surveillance footage.
Corridors. Elevator entrances. Emergency exits. All of it—down.
“System failure.”
That was their explanation.
I stood in the monitoring room, staring at a row of dead screens.
At that moment, I was alrea
