Page 1 — The Moment The Crowd Realized This Wasn’t A “Family Argument”
I looked up through the blur of pain and humiliation.
A man stepped out from behind the patio umbrella—mid-50s, calm, neat, holding a Diet Coke like he’d walked into the wrong backyard cookout.
He wasn’t family.
And he wasn’t impressed.
Tyler squared his shoulders. “Who the hell are you?”
The man adjusted his wire-rim glasses, took a casual sip, and answered like he was reading a chart.
“Dr. James Chen.”
Silence.
He pointed at me on the ground.
“Marcus’s orthopedic surgeon.”
You could hear the grill sizzling. A dog barking next door. The tinny country music still playing like it didn’t get the memo.
My aunt tried to recover with a brittle laugh. “Well, Doctor, your patient can apparently walk just fine when nobody’s looking.”
Dr. Chen smiled.
It didn’t reach his eyes.
“Actually,” he said, “I can explain that.”
And then he did something my brother wasn’t ready for.
He pulled out his phone.
Read what was on that screen—and why the entire backyard went from “joking” to terrified 👇
