Chapter 9 - The Final Trap
We arrived at the downtown police headquarters just as the sun began to rise.
Dad explained the entire situation to the chief of police, but without the financial documents, it sounded like a frantic conspiracy theory.
The police chief sighed and said Grandma had already filed a kidnapping charge against my father.
Technically, she still had legal custody, and Dad was now a wanted fugitive.
Just as the officers moved to arrest my dad, Doctor Mercer walked into the police station.
He was holding a sealed evidence bag containing the GPS tracker he had extracted from my plastic brace.
He explained that the device also stored high-definition audio recordings on an internal memory chip.
The police technician quickly plugged the chip into the precinct's main computer system.
A crystal clear audio file began playing loudly over the police speakers.
It was a recording of Grandma explicitly ordering her mercenaries to shoot my father and bury us in the woods.
The chief of police instantly dropped his handcuffs and grabbed his tactical radio.
He ordered a massive statewide manhunt for my grandmother on charges of attempted murder.
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Suddenly, the glass doors of the police station shattered inward as a black SUV rammed straight into the lobby.
Grandma crawled out of the wrecked vehicle, holding a heavy silver pistol aimed directly at my face.
