#Chapter 28 You Are Better Than This

Amber’s POV Healer Eric did not get to be the Head Healer at the hospital because he was lousy at his job. It was the opposite, in fact. He was a talented Healer most of the time. In my days at university, I’d even looked up to him and some of the breakthroughs he’d helped contributed to over the years. That didn’t excuse his behavior now, of course, but it did make me somewhat sympathetic to the man. It was difficult to connect the man I knew to be a talented Healer with the man who would steal an untested potion from a lab and then try to pass it off as his own work, without even running the necessary tests first! What could have happened to him that led him to fall so far to this moment? Was there too much stress on him in his present position? Or was it his hubris that overwhelmed his judgement? Or perhaps the call of standing in the limelight that made him blind to everything but his own success, no matter the cost? Julian looked at me patiently, waiting for me to explai