CHAPTER 1: THE IMPOSSIBLE PREGNANCIES
At St. Mary's Psychiatric Institute, nothing unusual was supposed to happen.
The hospital sat behind tall fences on the outskirts of the city. Security cameras monitored every corridor. Every entrance required authorization. Every patient was accounted for every hour of the day.
That was why Dr. Emily Carter nearly dropped the medical file when she saw the test results.
Pregnant.
Patient #247.
Twenty-eight years old.
Diagnosed with severe schizophrenia.
No husband.
No visitors.
No unsupervised outings.
At first, everyone assumed there had been a mistake.
Laboratory errors happened.
But after multiple tests confirmed the pregnancy, the hospital administration launched an internal review.
No violations were found.
No suspicious staff behavior.
No unauthorized visitors.
No missing security footage.
Life returned to normal.
Until three months later.
Another patient became pregnant.
Then another.
Then another.
Within a year, six women inside the psychiatric facility were expecting children.
Panic spread through the administration.
Reporters started asking questions.
Government inspectors arrived.
Families demanded answers.
How could women living under constant supervision become pregnant?
Every employee became a suspect.
Doctors.
Nurses.
Security guards.
Maintenance workers.
Everyone underwent questioning.
Background checks were repeated.
Phones were searched.
Schedules were analyzed.
Nothing.
Not a single clue emerged.
The women themselves only made things more confusing.
Whenever doctors asked what had happened, the answers sounded like delusions.
"The man comes through the garden."
"We meet after midnight."
"He opens the gate."
"Just like before."
The statements were dismissed as symptoms of mental illness.
But something bothered Dr. Carter.
The women had never met each other before entering the hospital.
Yet their stories were almost identical.
And every story mentioned one place.
The old garden.
The abandoned garden behind Building C.
A place no one had paid attention to for years.
That was the moment Dr. Carter made a decision.
She ordered hidden cameras to be installed throughout the garden.
What those cameras recorded three nights later would leave the entire staff speechless.
Because someone was entering the hospital.
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Someone who wasn't supposed to exist.
And he knew every security blind spot in the facility.
