Mara reached into her white lab coat. Her fingers brushed against something cold and metallic. She pulled out a small, silver pin—a chess piece. A red queen.
The lights in the hospital flickered and died. In the sudden darkness, the sound of a heavy door clicking shut echoed through the ward. Mara realized then that this wasn't a medical case. She was inside a plot that had already been written, and according to the rules of a Gómez-Jurado thriller, no one was ever truly safe until the final page. El Paciente Juan Gomez Jurado epub
"The patient is ready for his operation," a voice crackled over the intercom. It wasn't the head of surgery. It was a voice Mara recognized from a thousand audiobook narrations—the voice of a villain who was supposed to be fictional. Mara reached into her white lab coat