CHAPTER 5 — The Baby Was the Key to Everything
While investigators searched for the missing evidence, doctors focused on saving Emilia's daughter.
Baby Grace remained in the neonatal intensive care unit under constant observation.
One afternoon, Daniel noticed an unfamiliar woman standing outside the nursery window.
She wasn't family.
She wasn't medical staff.
The woman watched Grace for several minutes before quietly walking away.
Security stopped her before she reached the parking garage.
Inside her purse officers discovered several fake hospital identification cards, two prepaid phones, and a photograph of Emilia taken months before her collapse.
She refused to answer questions.
By evening, detectives learned she was connected to one of the shell companies Marcus had been investigating.
The conspiracy was far bigger than anyone imagined.
Meanwhile, Marcus finally uncovered the reason Grace had become the target.
Buried deep inside Emilia's grandfather's original trust was a handwritten amendment.
It had never been entered into the digital records.
The document stated that if Emilia died before exposing financial fraud, ownership of the family foundation—and every hidden asset connected to it—would automatically pass to her first living child.
Not Daniel.
Not distant relatives.
Not corporate trustees.
Grace.
The newborn everyone believed had died before birth had unknowingly become the legal owner of assets worth more than one hundred million dollars.
The criminals had failed twice.
First, Emilia survived.
Now Grace had survived too.
That night Daniel received a phone call.
No caller ID.
A calm male voice spoke only one sentence.
"You stopped the cremation once."
"You won't stop the funeral that's coming next."
The line went dead.
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Daniel looked toward the nursery where Grace slept peacefully.
For the first time, he realized the nightmare was only beginning.
