Chapter 1 - The Hospital Security
The sterile smell of the emergency room hit me the moment I carried Maya through the automatic doors.
Nurses rushed forward with a gurney as soon as they saw the blood soaking through her clothes.
I held Liam tightly against my chest, completely unable to stop my hands from shaking.
A doctor gently took my wife away, leaving me alone in the freezing waiting room.
I sat down on a hard plastic chair and looked at my sleeping son.
He was finally warm, wrapped securely in my heavy winter coat.
I pulled out my phone and opened the security camera application for our apartment.
I needed to see exactly when my family had abandoned them.
The timeline showed they had packed their luxury luggage three days ago.
I watched the screen as my mother, Eleanor, walked into our bedroom.
She did not just take the fourteen thousand dollars I had transferred for Maya's medical care.
She opened Maya's jewelry box and shoved every single diamond necklace into her designer handbag.
My sister, Chloe, appeared on the screen holding Liam's original birth certificate and social security card.
They were stealing our identities to fund their lavish lifestyle in Miami.
My blood boiled as I watched my brother-in-law, Mark, enter my private home office.
He carried a heavy black duffel bag and began loading my expensive computer equipment into it.
He also grabbed the silver briefcase containing my company's newest industrial microchip prototype.
If that prototype leaked to a competitor, I would face federal prison for corporate espionage.
I watched the footage speed up to the moment they left the apartment building.
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Mark did not put the black duffel bag into their waiting airport taxi.
He handed the bag to a strange man standing in the alleyway and received a thick stack of hundred-dollar bills in return.
