Chapter 14 - Emergency Hospital Delivery
I walked down the porch steps toward driver.
I signed the digital pad, taking small box.
"Thank you," I said, looking at label.
The brown cardboard package had no return address.
I walked back to the wooden porch table.
I pulled open the brown sealing tape carefully.
Inside the box lay a sleek silver drive.
Beside the drive rested a single old photograph.
I picked up the photo with careful fingers.
The image showed an old facility deep in.
Standing in front was a tall, elegant woman.
She wore a dark tailored suit and gold.
My blood ran completely ice cold in seconds.
The woman in the photo was Victoria's sister.
Eleanor Bellacourt, the matriarch who vanished years.
Eleanor hadn't died of illness back then.
She was alive and running an international syndicate.
I flipped the photo over to read back:
"Hello, my clever niece Claire."
"Victoria was only executing my instructions all along."
"I created the offshore network to test you."
"You passed the test, my brilliant girl."
"Now it is time for you to take over."
"I am waiting for you at mountain facility."
Pure, paralyzing, freezing terror flooded my entire body.
The entire Bellacourt family was just a pawn.
Eleanor Bellacourt was the ultimate global leader behind.
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A floorboard creaked softly on the porch outside.
Slow, heavy, deliberate footsteps approached my door.
