Chapter 7 - The Medical Files Revealed Why Vivien Had Chosen My Daughter as Her Perfect ScapegoatEmma's condition had always been explained as congenital.
But the files suggested something else.
A research study had been conducted years earlier involving several children.
The study had been secretly funded by Gabriel Varga.
Its purpose was to identify children with a rare cardiac mutation.
Isabella was one.
Emma was another.
Both girls had been born with the same genetic marker.
The doctors had monitored them without our knowledge.
I felt sick.
“Why?”
Mateo answered.
“Because the mutation is valuable.”
“To whom?”
“A pharmaceutical company.”
He showed me the documents.
A private biotech group had developed an experimental treatment.
They needed patients with the exact genetic profile.
Gabriel wanted control of the research.
The children were assets.
Not people.
That's why Isabella and Emma had been targeted.
The medication story had been a smokescreen.
The real objective was access to their medical data.
Vivien had discovered the truth after her father pressured her.
She cooperated because she thought it would save his life.
But when she realized children could die, she panicked.
She began secretly recording conversations.
That's why the memory card existed.
She had been collecting evidence against Gabriel.
Her betrayal was real.
But so was her fear.
For the first time, I understood that she had been both conspirator and prisoner.
That didn't excuse what she did to Emma.
Nothing could.
But it explained why she had begun turning against her own father.
Then the power went out.
Someone screamed.
The estate doors opened simultaneously.
A dozen armed men entered.
Lorenzo shouted:
“Get Isabella!”
I grabbed Emma.
Mateo drew his weapon.
Vincent covered the hallway.
The battle lasted minutes.
It felt like hours.
Then we heard a child's scream.
Isabella.
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She had been taken.
And so had Vivien.
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