Chapter 9 - The Woman Who Had Worked for Lorenzo for Seventeen Years Disappeared With My Daughter's Entire Medical HistoryMrs. Carlisle had erased herself.
Every record.
Every bank account.
Every photograph.
She had planned the disappearance carefully.
Then we found one clue.
A train station photograph.
She was carrying a small suitcase.
And behind her stood a man.
Mateo recognized him.
A federal investigator.
Someone who had been secretly helping Gabriel.
We followed the trail to Boston.
There, we found an abandoned clinic.
Inside were dozens of files.
Children.
Medical records.
Experimental treatments.
Names.
Most had been erased.
Emma's file was still there.
So was Isabella's.
And underneath them was a list of payments.
Mrs. Carlisle had received money for seventeen years.
She had been spying on Lorenzo long before Isabella was born.
When we confronted her, she broke down.
“I was trapped.”
Lorenzo stared at her.
“You had seventeen years to leave.”
“My son was being held.”
“What son?”
She revealed the final secret.
Her son was Cole Mercer.
The handler from the kidnapping attempt.
The man who had attacked me.
The man who had kidnapped Isabella.
Mrs. Carlisle had been protecting him.
But she had also been planning to betray Gabriel.
She handed us the research files.
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Then whispered:
“They're coming for Emma tonight.”
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