Chapter 5 - The Hidden Beneficiary
The printed name on the insurance document completely shattered my understanding of the entire situation.
Nurse Sarah was not a horrified bystander; she was a critical player in this deadly game of greed.
Her shocked reaction in the hospital room was purely because my mother had used physical violence instead of the planned, untraceable poison.
I shoved the insurance documents into my backpack and grabbed a loaded silver pistol I found at the back of the safe.
I slipped out of the corporate building completely unnoticed and drove straight to the luxury apartment address listed on Sarah's file.
I bypassed the fancy lobby by climbing the fire escape stairs in the pouring rain.
I picked the cheap lock on her balcony door and quietly stepped into her dark, expensive living room.
Sarah was sitting on a velvet couch, casually sipping a glass of expensive red wine while watching the news coverage of my supposed crime.
I stepped out of the shadows and pointed the silver pistol directly at her chest.
"Do not make a single sound, or I swear I will pull this trigger," I whispered fiercely.
Sarah dropped her wine glass, sending red liquid splashing across her expensive white carpet.
"Clara, please, they forced me to do it!" she cried out, raising her trembling hands in the air.
"You are the sole beneficiary of a fifty-million-dollar insurance policy on my daughter's life," I growled, stepping closer to her.
Sarah broke down entirely, sobbing as she confessed her true role in the terrifying conspiracy.
She admitted that she was the one who illegally sourced the synthetic neurotoxin from the hospital's secure pharmacy.
"I did not want to hurt the little girl, but David promised me half the money if I kept the doctors confused," Sarah sobbed.
"Why would David trust a random nurse with fifty million dollars?" I demanded, keeping the gun steady.
Sarah looked up at me with mascara running heavily down her pale face.
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"Because I am not just a random nurse, Clara," she whispered with a bitter, broken laugh.
"David is my biological brother, and we have been planning to steal your family's fortune since the day he met you."
