Jonah swallowed the hurt and focused on the leg. “You have acute gluteal spasm compressing your sciatic nerve. It looks like paralysis. It isn’t. I can release it.”
Barron sneered. “You? Fine. Try.”
Security closed in. Phones came out.
Jonah pulled a Ziploc bag from his jacket—51 torn pages of medical journals. He quoted the protocol word for word. Angle. Pressure. Duration. Authors. Journal. Page number.
The patio went dead quiet.
“What do you need?” Barron asked finally.
“Don’t move,” Jonah said. “And count with me.”
Hands washed. Thirty seconds. Careful. Exact.
Jonah knelt by the wheelchair, child-small beside a powerful man. He found the landmark. Barron flinched.
“Count,” Jonah said.
Pressure. Eight pounds. Then more.
“One… two… three…”
Barron screamed. Sweat poured.
“Fifteen…”
A sharp pop echoed.
The muscle released.
“It’s gone,” Barron gasped. “The pain—it’s gone.”
He moved his toes. Then his foot. Then stood.
Pandemonium.
Barron took four steps, staring at his legs like they belonged to someone else. He dropped to his knees in front of Jonah and sobbed.
“You gave me my life back,” he said. “In eighteen seconds.”
Cameras captured everything.
Barron wrote the check. One million dollars.
Jonah didn’t take it.
“I didn’t do it for money,” he said softly. “When my mom was dying, she kept saying, ‘Please listen.’ Nobody did. I couldn’t let that happen again.”
“What do you want?” Barron asked.
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