Chapter 7 - The Daughter Who Had Been the Target All AlongSecurity responded quickly.
But the attackers knew the hospital.
They bypassed two checkpoints.
Someone inside had helped them.
Grant realized it immediately.
“Get Lily out.”
Michael nodded.
Claire stayed with them.
They moved through a service corridor.
Lily clung to Michael's hand.
“Where are we going?”
“Somewhere safe.”
“Is Daddy coming?”
“Yes.”
Grant appeared behind them.
He was carrying a gun.
Claire felt relief.
Then fear.
Because Grant's face looked different.
Calm.
Deadly.
The same expression he'd worn when angry investors threatened his company.
Only now, the stakes were his child.
They reached an underground parking area.
A vehicle waited.
Claire opened the door.
Then froze.
The woman from the hallway stood beside the car.
White scarf.
Same perfume.
She removed her sunglasses.
Grant stopped breathing.
“Emma.”
His wife's name.
Claire stared.
The woman began crying.
“I didn't know how else to reach you.”
Grant's voice was barely audible.
“You're alive.”
Emma nodded.
“I was supposed to die.”
Lily ran to her.
“Mommy!”
Emma caught her.
She cried into her daughter's hair.
Grant looked broken.
“I buried you.”
“I know.”
“Why?”
“Because if they thought I was dead, they would stop looking.”
“You let me grieve for three years.”
“I had no choice.”
Claire saw it.
The weakness.
The exhaustion.
The truth.
Emma had survived.
Barely.
Her cancer treatment had been deliberately sabotaged.
She escaped before the final procedure.
She had been living under protection.
Watching Lily from afar.
Waiting for proof.
The sensor gave them that proof.
Now they had everything.
But one person remained.
Grant's father had died.
Michael was alive.
Vale was exposed.
Yet someone still controlled Helix.
The name appeared on a file Emma carried.
Grant Holloway.
Not the billionaire.
His legal identity had been used years earlier as part of the experimental program.
Someone had created a second corporate identity in his name.
The criminal organization wasn't using his company.
They were using him.
His reputation.
His legal status.
His bloodline.
Emma looked at him.
“Your father built the system.”
Grant stared.
“Then who runs it now?”
Emma answered.
“You.”
He froze.
“No.”
“Yes.”
“They used your signature to authorize everything.”
Grant looked at the documents.
False signatures.
Years of transactions.
His name.
His identity.
He had been unknowingly listed as the head of the hidden operation.
The truth could destroy him.
Unless they exposed it first.
Claire looked at Grant.
“What will you do?”
He looked at Lily.
Then at Emma.
Then at Claire.
“I'll burn it down.”
That night, Grant released everything.
Emails.
Financial records.
Medical files.
Research documents.
Names.
He gave them to federal investigators.
Helix collapsed.
Arrests began.
Hospitals were searched.
Doctors testified.
The hidden program was exposed.
And the Holloway empire survived.
Barely.
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Because this time, Grant wasn't protecting the empire.
He was protecting people.
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