Chapter 4 - The impossible connection
I stared blankly at the frightening photographs scattered across the dusty bedroom floor.
My hands trembled violently as I flipped through the highly detailed images of my everyday life.
This mysterious woman had been meticulously tracking my every move since the exact year Lily was born.
I grabbed the metal box, rushed back to the hospital, and demanded to see her mother immediately.
The nurses tried to physically stop me, but I pushed past them directly into the intensive care unit.
Sarah, the woman who had almost died the night before, slowly opened her heavily bruised, tired eyes.
I held up one of the invasive photographs and aggressively demanded to know why she was watching me.
She looked absolutely terrified, struggling to breathe properly through the plastic oxygen mask over her face.
She weakly whispered that she never meant to bring danger to my door or involve my business.
I asked her exactly who she was running from and why she had purposely sent Lily to my specific store.
Tears streamed down her pale cheeks as she reached out to grab my trembling hand.
She confessed that five years ago, she worked as a senior nurse at an exclusive, high-end fertility clinic.
A powerful crime syndicate had hacked the clinic's confidential database to extort the wealthy clients.
She stole the encrypted hard drive to protect the anonymous donors, and the syndicate had been hunting her ever since.
She looked at me with pure, unfiltered desperation in her tear-filled eyes.
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She whispered that I was not just a random, wealthy store owner to her.
She had secretly used my specific donor file to conceive Lily, meaning I was actually her biological father.
