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Sarah Vale refused to speak over the phone.<\/p>\n
She named a crowded caf\u00e9 forty minutes away.<\/p>\n
Alexander went with two private security officers.<\/p>\n
Sarah arrived wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap.<\/p>\n
She was approximately Julia\u2019s age.<\/p>\n
Mid-forties.<\/p>\n
She sat opposite Alexander and immediately placed a phone inside a signal-blocking pouch.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t have brought company.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re yours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alexander studied her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Julia tell you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah looked exhausted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat depends on what you know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know someone forged Rebecca\u2019s identity, drugged my son, entered my house, and searched for something Julia hid.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah\u2019s face changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re looking for the ledger.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat ledger?\u201d<\/p>\n
She hesitated.<\/p>\n
Julia had discovered something at Cole Dynamics before Henry was born.<\/p>\n
A hidden financial system buried inside vendor payments.<\/p>\n
At first she believed it was corporate fraud.<\/p>\n
Then she found connections to private medical research.<\/p>\n
Children\u2019s hospitals.<\/p>\n
Behavioral clinics.<\/p>\n
Data brokers.<\/p>\n
A company called Northstar Therapeutics.<\/p>\n
Alexander recognized the name.<\/p>\n
Cole Dynamics had once invested in Northstar.<\/p>\n
The partnership ended after regulatory problems.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Julia find?\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah leaned closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cNorthstar was collecting neurological data from children without proper consent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alexander\u2019s expression hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would have destroyed them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would have destroyed more than Northstar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some Cole executives had funded the research.<\/p>\n
Not Alexander, Sarah insisted.<\/p>\n
Julia believed he had been deliberately kept outside the project because he would shut it down.<\/p>\n
She began gathering proof.<\/p>\n
Then Henry was born.<\/p>\n
Julia withdrew suddenly from work.<\/p>\n
Alexander remembered.<\/p>\n
She claimed she wanted to focus on motherhood.<\/p>\n
Sarah gave another explanation.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone threatened Henry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alexander\u2019s throat tightened.<\/p>\n
Julia had hidden copies of records somewhere even Sarah never learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sarah Vale refused to speak over the phone. She named a crowded caf\u00e9 forty minutes away. Alexander went with two private security officers. Sarah arrived wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap. She was approximately Julia\u2019s age. Mid-forties. She sat opposite Alexander and immediately placed a phone inside a signal-blocking pouch. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t have brought company.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-378","sr_chapter","type-sr_chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sr_chapter\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sr_chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/sr_chapter"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sr_chapter\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}