Chapter 10 - THE DOCTOR
The death certificate was signed by Dr. Samuel Vale.
Our family physician.
He had treated my bruises as “sports injuries,” prescribed Linda sedatives, and certified Thomas’s death after the warehouse fire.
He knew Thomas lived.
He helped erase Laura.
He prepared my future suicide.
Vale claimed Richard threatened his family.
Financial records showed millions in payments.
Fear became profit long ago.
The medical board suspended him.
Police searched his clinic.
A hidden room contained patient files from other wealthy families.
Women declared unstable.
Children transferred.
Spouses pronounced dead without bodies.
The Miller family belonged to a larger network called Continuity Partners.
They sold legal identity manipulation.
False deaths.
Twin substitutions.
Guardianship fraud.
Inheritance transfers.
Richard was a client and regional operator.
Thomas had once been a founder.
My grandfather did not merely oppose the system.
He helped create it.
Thomas admitted the truth under oath.
After the warehouse fire, he entered witness protection because Continuity wanted him dead.
He returned to stop Richard only when his own hidden shares were threatened.
Not pure justice.
Self-preservation.
Then the network struck back.
Detective Hayes’s computer released edited footage showing me attacking Richard in the garage.
My punch did not exist.
The video was synthetic.
Public opinion split.
The court relied on original phone metadata, injury photographs, garage camera timing, and witness accounts.
Truth survived through corroboration.
Then Rachel disappeared from protective housing.
A note remained:
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COME TO THE GARAGE ALONE OR YOUR TWIN DIES.
Read Chapter 11 to discover why the kidnappers wanted the exact place where the first video was recorded.
