Chapter 5 - Dr. Hale Threatened to Kill the Children Unless Rory Surrendered His Empire, but Lily’s Tiny Drawing Exposed the Location of the Hidden FacilityWe found a drawing.
Lily had made it before disappearing.
A house.
Three windows.
A black circle.
A red door.
Rory stared.
“She's drawing this from memory.”
“How do you know?”
“She notices details.”
We compared it to maps.
One building matched.
An abandoned medical facility.
We went.
Inside, we found the children.
Alive.
Terrified.
My daughter ran to me.
I held her.
Rory found Lily and Rose.
Both were shaking.
Then the twins pointed toward a locked room.
“Daddy.”
“What?”
“Aunt Celeste was there.”
She wasn't the mastermind.
Hale was.
But Celeste had been complicit.
She had helped torture them.
She had helped steal the money.
She had lied.
Rory confronted her.
She admitted it.
But said she had been threatened.
Hale had threatened her daughter.
She had chosen to protect her own child.
Rory said nothing.
Then Hale appeared on the monitors.
He announced the final plan.
Rory's empire would transfer ownership at midnight.
The trust had already been hacked.
Only one thing could stop it.
May you like
Evan.
Rory's brother.
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