The Prison-Made Queen novel Chapter 936

Three days later, Clive Sloan's test results were finally ready, and he headed to the hospital heavily disguised.

He had buried himself inside a wrinkled, oversized gray hoodie, the hood pulled so low it nearly covered his eyes. A black surgical mask obscured the rest of his face, leaving only a pair of hollow, deadened eyes visible.

Ever since the massive scandal trended online, Clive's already damaged reputation had plummeted into absolute infamy. Even people who had never listened to his music now knew his face from the endless stream of hit pieces. Terrified of being recognized, he immediately tucked himself into the most obscure corner of the waiting room plastic chairs. He curled in on himself, praying for invisibility.

His bizarre, hyper-paranoid behavior only drew more attention, causing the other patients to cast weird looks in his direction and give him a wide berth.

Clive didn't notice. His heart was in his throat, his fingers nervously picking at the edges of his medical file until the cardboard frayed.

He had no idea what the tests would show.

When the digital display finally flashed his low-profile alias, "John Judson," he jolted upright as if he'd been electrocuted. Head down, he practically sprinted toward the examination room.

Inside, an older doctor with graying hair adjusted his reading glasses. The doctor looked from the dense, alarming data on his monitor to the heavily bundled young man sitting nervously in front of him. His brow knit into a tight, concerned frown.

"Your situation... is highly unusual."

Clive's right hand instinctively clamped down over the small pill bottle hidden in his hoodie pocket.

He didn't dare confess that the pills were experimental, off-the-books drugs his brother Zeus had stolen from a lab. His eyes darted around the room in a panic as he mumbled, "It's... it's just regular medication... from a clinic..."

"What is the exact name of the drug? I need specifics."

"If you were taking standard, approved antiretroviral therapy, there is absolutely no way your internal system would be this devastated in such a short window!"