"Notified." Lucien repeated the word with zero inflection. "Consider me notified then.""We recommend you come in asap."

"No." The single word cut through the air.

"Mr. Hayes, your father was poisoned. He's-"

"Don't want to know." Lucien's voice stayed eerily calm. "I'm not coming to that hospital. Not tonight, not tomorrow, not ever. I have plans tomorrow that are infinitely more important than visiting that man. Do you understand?"

There was a pause on the other end.

"Sir, he's your father ...