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Chapter 4 - The Stolen Supply

The sinister message on my screen vanished instantly, taking all my saved files with it. The laptop forcefully rebooted, completely wiped clean of every single video and document. Marianne had remotely erased my hard drive the exact moment I discovered the footage. I screamed in pure frustration and hurled the useless camera against the hardwood floor. I was completely trapped in a suffocating nightmare designed by a master manipulator. My cell phone suddenly began to vibrate loudly on the wooden nightstand. I answered it quickly, desperately hoping it was Daniel calling to apologize. "Mrs. Carter?" an unfamiliar female voice whispered cautiously through the speaker. "Yes, this is Emily," I replied, my voice raspy and hoarse from crying. "My name is Sarah, and I am a trauma nurse working the night shift with your husband," the woman said. "I heard the rumors about what happened to your baby, and I need to tell you something before I lose my nerve." I sat up straight on the edge of the bed, pressing the phone tightly against my ear. "Please, Sarah, tell me whatever you know," I begged desperately. "The toxicology report showed a very specific, high-grade liquid sedative in Noah's system," she explained. "It is absolutely not the kind of medication you can just pick up at a local pharmacy with a prescription." My exhausted mind raced rapidly as I tried to process the technical medical information. "Where does a drug like that come from?" I asked softly into the receiver. "It is a highly regulated paralytic used exclusively by emergency medical services for severe trauma patients," Sarah revealed. "And three full vials of that exact sedative went missing from Daniel's paramedic supply kit last week." The warm blood completely drained from my face in a matter of seconds. Marianne could not have possibly accessed the locked, heavily guarded medical supplies on a city ambulance. Only Daniel had the security codes and the physical keys to that secure lockbox. "Thank you, Sarah," I whispered in horror before slowly hanging up the phone. A terrifying, mind-bending new reality began to take shape in my head. My husband was not a clueless, innocent victim of his mother's manipulation. Daniel was the one actively providing her with the dangerous drugs.

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