After Jared walked out of Rachel's ward, he did not leave the hospital immediately. He made an inquiry at the reception and found out about Valarie's ward number. He then proceeded to her ward to give her a visit. He opened the door and stepped inside. There was a nurse who was changing her empty blood bag to a new one.

Jared looked at the woman lying unconscious on the bed. Her forehead was covered with a bandage, the big oxygen mask covered half of her face. It looked like she was in deep sleep. Jared smiled.

After the nurse changed the blood bag, she noticed his presence and was a little surprised. She did not know when he had entered, he did not make a sound at all.

"Sir, are you visiting the patient?" She asked politely.

Jared was silent, his eyes were fixed on Valarie. The woman who was now in deep slumber did not know how much stress she had given him before.

As soon as he had heard that the two men he had sent to spy on the people in the Intelligence had been caught, he had sent his men to finish them off before they could point fingers at him. However, he was pleasantly surprised when his men did not reveal anything about the gang as well as why they were spying on them. Instead they took their own life just to save their Master. He was happy with their loyalty and had sent an abundant amount to their families as compensation.

He next focused his target on Valarie, he knew she was the one who was investigating the case related to the virus from his sources. So he had to be wary of her and the best method was to eliminate her. He gave orders to Zee to finish her off efficiently and make it look like an accident and accordingly Zee had failed the brakes of her car, leading to her accident. And now here she was lying in a hospital bed, unconscious and fragile.

His smile widened. Nobody could trace the accident to be intentional harm as the brakes had been fixed right after Valarie had been sent to the hospital. He had to give it for Zee as he had done a good job, except that in this midst Rachel had got hurt.

Anyway, he couldn't do anything now. He was relieved that Rachel was not gravely injured, otherwise he himself did not know what he would do.

"Sir, Sir?" The nurse called at him again and again, until he finally reacted.

"How is she?"

"The patient is in a coma, but it's not serious. She will wake up in a week or two."

Jared sighed. He knew he couldn't do anything to her in the hospital as the Regal Medical Hospital was one of the best hospitals in the city and every ward other than the maternity ward had a camera which secretly recorded everything that was happening in the room and the best part was nobody knew where the camera was present, except for the ones in the higher authorities. This was mainly done to prevent any 'accidental deaths' in the hospital lest they should be blamed for any negligence. He could only wait for her to gain conscious, recover and leave the hospital to make any attempts on her again.

"I'll go for now," Jared informed the nurse and walked away without another word. Barely after a few seconds of him leaving the ward, Ryder and Preston walked in. They had missed Jared by a fraction of seconds.

The nurse was taken by surprise again. The two men came and sat on the two stools placed beside her bed.

"How is she?" Ryder asked as he looked at his Deputy lying silently on a hospital bed. He couldn't believe that his mentor was lying comatose, it was the same for Preston too. Valarie was a senior they respected and admired. It still came in as a shock for them that she was involved in an accident as they knew she was an expert driver. They knew that the car had been tampered with and they had sent it for inspection. They were yet to receive results of it.

"She is doing good. She will wake up in a week or two." The nurse repeated the same words she had told Jared to the two men in the ward.

"Did anybody come inside the ward before us? I mean other than the doctors or the nurses?" Preston asked. He could smell a strong fragrance of cologne and he had detected it as soon as he had entered the ward. He recognized the smell at once, it was an international brand and a small bottle of it cost around a few million dollars and moreover it was only available in a limited edition. So, there was no way a mere doctor or a nurse could afford such a cologne unless he was influential.

"Yes. Just a few minutes before you arrived, a man had visited the patient."

Ryder and Preston stood up at once listening to her. Nobody knew about Valarie's accident, not even her colleagues from her workspace, except for Preston and Ryder. There was no way anybody would come to visit her until he was someone they were looking for, the culprit.

"Who was it? What did they do? How many people were here?" Ryder threw his questions at the poor nurse in one breathe. The nurse was startled by the sudden change in the behavior, they were behaving weird.

"I don't know who he was, he didn't say his name. He was alone. He just asked about her condition and he left."

"That's it?"

The nurse nodded unable to speak more. "I'll come back and check up on her forty minutes later." She then slipped out of the ward.

"Who do you think that man was?" Preston questioned after pondering for some time.

"The one who wanted the Deputy dead." Ryder analyzed.

There was no doubt in that. The man must be the one who had targeted her and now he must have visited her to find out more about her condition.

After some time, Preston looked in the direction of the photo frame hung on the wall behind Valarie's bed. There was nothing different about it. But as soon as he got near it, he found a small pinhole camera attached to it. It was so small and minute that most people would miss it even on taking a closer look and the best part was, it blended so well with the painting in the frame that nobody would doubt it.

"Ryder, do you remember? It was said in the tabloids that every ward in the Regal Medical Hospital has a hidden camera to ensure the safety of their patients.

"Yes," Ryder answered, not knowing what Preston was hinting at.

"Come. Take a look here."

Ryder followed his gaze and noticed the small camera on the frame. He was dumbstruck once again by Preston's ability, his sixth sense worked like a devil and sometimes he doubted that if he was even from this world. How the hell did he even detect a camera in such an unbelievable position?

"Yes, we can find out who was in the word before we entered," Ryder said, still admiring Preston's skills. He was definitely the only one in the whole world with such a skill.

"Will the management give us the recording?" Preston was skeptical.

"Why won't they? We are from the Intelligence, they will have to cooperate with us."

Preston nodded. It did not matter who they were going to offend in the process, their main aim at present was to find the culprit who was after Valarie's life.