the villain in this story

Sitting in the private room, Zane watched Dr. Norseman and his team attend to Mr. Briggs, injecting IVs into his veins as they hook a bunch of equipment on him.

The scene, for Zane, was something he could relate to, since this was literally him at a young age, spending his days in doctor Ben's ward.

It took a couple of hours for the crowd in the room to reduce and all those while, Zane was there, not taking his eyes off Mr. Briggs, who was also staring at him with mixed emotions written on his face.

Afterward, when it was just Mr. Norseman, Zane, and Mr. Briggs in the room, Dr. Norseman approached Zane and said, “Unlike your mother and your case, the poison in your father's system is not fatal-”

“I guess Deborah wanted to take a much slower time killing him,” Zane mumbled, but the doctor heard him loud and clear, yet he was afraid to ask a follow-up question, knowing the danger that that could put his life in.

“We have started the treatment of detoxing it out of his system, and his s