Chapter 10 - THE OFFICER

Officer Michael Reed returned the card after Internal Affairs confronted him.
He said Richard Carter threatened his daughter.
His fear mattered.
His obstruction remained.
The card exposed other families using similar postpartum incapacity schemes.
Mothers isolated after birth.
Supplies removed.
Accounts frozen.
Notes planted.
Children transferred to relatives.
Carter Family Research paid for each case.
A national investigation began.
Then Liam developed a fever.
Doctors found a microdevice beneath his hospital bracelet.
It transmitted location and audio.
The clinic had been listening since birth.
They also detected a small puncture near his heel unrelated to routine screening.
Someone had drawn extra blood.
Hospital footage showed a nurse entering under Dr. Evans’s credentials.
A facial double.
The sample disappeared.
The research continued despite arrests.
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Then Sophie’s advocate reported she had gone missing from protective placement.
A woman using my face collected her.