Chapter 6 - SOPHIE
Her name was Sophie.
Claire had taken her from the research facility after discovering my father’s plan.
She raised Sophie under another surname.
Why not tell me?
She believed I was being monitored and would lead Robert to the child.
Another secret justified as protection.
Sophie knew Claire as Mom.
She knew me only from photographs labeled “Aunt Emily.”
The court placed her with independent guardians while identity and custody were investigated.
I did not demand immediate motherhood.
Biology did not erase the life Sophie already knew.
Daniel learned he was her biological father.
He wanted to meet her.
The advocate refused until safety review.
Then the hospital capsule revealed a second child.
Another embryo.
Another surrogate.
A son named Noah.
Registered under Linda’s name as legal mother.
Linda had been preparing to present him as Daniel’s younger brother.
The family tree was designed for inheritance, not love.
Then Sophie’s medical records showed the same appendix abnormality I had.
The research program tracked a hereditary condition.
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My ruptured appendix may have been induced to collect emergency surgical data.
Read Chapter 7 to learn who ordered the operation to become an experiment.
