Chapter 4 - Someone Tried to Kill My Mother at the Cancer Center—And the Note Left Behind Had My Father's HandwritingWe reached the hospital twenty minutes later.
Police cars blocked the entrance.
My mother was alive.
That was the first miracle.
The second was that she wasn't alone.
Danny had been beside her.
My nineteen-year-old brother looked terrified.
“Lily?”
“I'm okay.”
He stared at the bandage.
“You got shot.”
“I'm fine.”
“You don't look fine.”
Dominic walked in behind me.
Danny froze.
“That's him.”
I frowned.
“You know him?”
Danny nodded.
“He was in Dad's old notes.”
Dominic looked at him.
“What did your father write about me?”
Danny swallowed.
“He wrote that you might not be the enemy.”
Dominic went silent.
Then a nurse approached.
“Ms. Chen?”
“Yes?”
“We found this beside your mother's bed.”
She handed me an envelope.
My hands trembled.
Inside was a single sheet of paper.
I recognized the handwriting immediately.
My father's handwriting.
Lily, if you are reading this, the Valentine family isn't the danger.
I couldn't breathe.
Dominic read over my shoulder.
The next line was worse.
The man who killed me works for someone inside the police department.
At the bottom was a name.
Arthur Bell.
Dominic stared at it.
“Chief Bell?”
My father had accused one of Brooklyn's most respected detectives.
A man who had attended my father's funeral.
A man who had hugged my mother.
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A man who had told me my father died a hero.
My entire childhood had been built on a lie.
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