Chapter 15 - The Sister No One Knew
Natalie confronted her mother, Helen Reed.
Helen broke down.
After Natalie was born, Helen had another daughter.
Emma.
At the time, Helen was unmarried and struggling financially.
A hospital social worker told her the baby had severe medical problems and died after birth.
Helen never saw the body.
The social worker worked for Claire’s agency.
Emma had been stolen.
The ledger listed her current identity as Emma Price.
Judge Price had raised her as a niece.
Natalie and Evan searched his estate.
They found a twenty-four-year-old woman locked in a guesthouse.
Emma had been told she suffered from a dangerous psychiatric disorder and could not live independently.
Her medications kept her sedated.
Natalie recognized the pattern immediately.
The network did not only steal infants.
It controlled them for life.
Emma was hospitalized and slowly taken off the unnecessary drugs.
DNA confirmed she was Natalie and Evan’s sister.
Helen met her with trembling hands.
“I thought you died.”
Emma replied, “So did I.”
Judge Price was charged with kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, fraud, and medical abuse.
His arrest encouraged other victims to come forward.
The list inside the stuffed puppy became the foundation of a national investigation.
More than forty children had been moved through the network.
Some had been adopted by loving families who never knew the truth.
Others had been used for inheritance schemes, custody leverage, or financial fraud.
Natalie looked at Ashley and understood why Andrew had trusted her.
He had discovered Evan’s name in the files.
He knew Natalie would not stop.
Then Claire requested a private meeting.
She claimed one person above Judge Price had financed the network for decades.
Thomas Monroe.
The dead billionaire.
But Claire said Thomas had recorded every transaction as insurance.
The master archive was hidden inside Monroe Aerospace headquarters.
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And the building was scheduled for demolition the next morning.
👉 The final evidence could expose every buyer and official involved, but Natalie had only hours to recover it.
