Felix arrived that afternoon.

Damien had arranged to meet him at a coffee shop nearby — neutral ground, two near-strangers with nothing easy to say. They kept the small talk minimal.

Damien sent over the digital medical records without preamble.

Felix studied them in silence, and with every passing second, the furow between his brows deepened. Small cell lung cancer — the most aggressive of all lung malignancies. And it had already metastasized ...