Chapter 22 - THE SHADOW IN THE SANITORIUM
Deep inside a heavy-security psychiatric asylum in Switzerland, Olivia lives in total isolation, stripped of her identity and recorded under a false patient number. One rainy evening, a visitor in a dark coat enters her padded cell. It is Aria—older, hardened, and wearing the signature signet ring of the late patriarch. Aria drops a thick file onto the table: medical proof that the neurotoxin Olivia used thirty years ago was altered by Derek before she ever touched the tea. Olivia wasn't poisoning the family; she was slowly dosing herself with a synthetic agent that altered her brain chemistry, causing the very paranoia and hallucinations that led to her ultimate downfall. "You thought you were playing God, Mom," Aria cold-bloodedly whispers. "You were just our test subject."
