CHAPTER 5 – "The Kidnapping Was Only the Beginning"
Emily's heart nearly stopped.
The nursery window was open.
The curtains danced in the cold midnight wind.
Her newborn daughter...
Gone.
Jonathan Hale rushed inside moments later and found Emily on the floor, clutching the tiny pink blanket the baby had been wrapped in only minutes earlier.
"No..."
"No... she wouldn't..."
Jonathan's expression turned grim.
"Victoria never wanted Carter Holdings."
Emily looked up.
"Then what does she want?"
Jonathan answered with three chilling words.
"Your family blood."
Emily stared at him in disbelief.
"What are you talking about?"
Jonathan unlocked another encrypted file from the flash drive.
Inside was a document hidden for over thirty years.
It wasn't a business contract.
It was a DNA report.
Emily's father had belonged to a secret investment dynasty that quietly controlled billions through anonymous trusts across Europe and America.
Only a direct blood descendant could legally inherit the fortune.
Emily...
And now her daughter...
Were the only living heirs.
Ryan had never known.
He believed the company was the prize.
Victoria knew better.
She had spent decades manipulating everyone around her to reach the real inheritance.
Ryan had only been her puppet.
Emily's phone suddenly rang.
Unknown Number.
She answered.
Victoria's calm voice echoed through the speaker.
"She's beautiful."
Emily screamed.
"If you touch my daughter—"
Victoria laughed softly.
"I already have."
"You have forty-eight hours."
"Bring me every file your father left behind."
"Or your little girl disappears forever."
The call ended.
Emily collapsed into Jonathan's arms.
For the first time...
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The battle was no longer about revenge.
It was about saving her child.
