Her actions made Elijah Reed almost certain that Maya Spencer was in this hospital, perhaps even in the room he was about to search, so he instructed, "Search this ward carefully."
Elijah Reed's assistant listened to the command and immediately started rummaging through cabinets and cupboards.
Elijah Reed scrutinized the hospital bed and increasingly felt something was suspicious. There was an empty bed, and it was such a good position. Things were getting more and more peculiar. He bent down to carefully observe the marks on the bed and found that the sheets were not newly replaced but were tidied immediately after someone had slept on them.
Next, he opened the bay window and found that the carpet on the windowsill showed no signs of being changed, and there was a spot where the blanket was noticeably stickier than other places. He deduced that it might have been stained with water or something like tears and hadn't been dealt with after drying, causing it to clump together.
