CHAPTER 8: The Groom Learned the Terrifying Truth
The backup generator kicked in seconds later.
Dim red emergency lights flooded the morgue.
Standing in the doorway...
Was the senior pathologist.
His white coat was stained with dust from the struggle downstairs.
The pistol was still in his hand.
His eyes locked onto Emily.
For several seconds...
Neither of them spoke.
Then Emily whispered something that made Olivia's blood run cold.
"I know you..."
The doctor smiled.
"I was hoping you wouldn't remember."
Emily closed her eyes, struggling to recall the fragmented memories.
"The wine..."
"You handed me a different glass..."
"And you said it was a gift from my father's oldest friend..."
The doctor's smile vanished.
She remembered.
Everything.
Just then, Ryan burst into the room with Mr. Thomas and two security officers behind him.
"Emily!"
Ryan ran to her side, tears streaming down his face.
She reached out and squeezed his hand.
"I'm sorry..."
"I tried to warn you..."
The doctor suddenly laughed.
A cold, chilling laugh that echoed through the morgue.
"You still think this was about a wedding?"
"No."
"This began twenty-six years ago."
Everyone froze.
The doctor slowly pulled an old photograph from his pocket and threw it onto the floor.
Ryan picked it up.
The picture showed three newborn baby girls lying side by side in a hospital nursery.
One infant had been circled in red.
On the back was a handwritten message:
"The true heir must never learn who she is."
Mr. Thomas stared at the photograph in horror.
"I knew it..."
"The babies were switched."
The doctor raised his pistol once more.
"Emily isn't just another bride."
"She's the sole surviving heir to a fortune worth over two billion dollars..."
"And someone has spent her entire life making sure she would never discover the truth."
Just then...
A loud voice echoed from the hospital entrance.
"FBI! Drop your weapon!"
The doctor slowly smiled.
"You think I'm the mastermind?"
He lowered the gun...
And calmly said words that left everyone frozen in terror.
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"The person who ordered Emily's murder... was standing at the wedding altar beside her."
Ryan's face instantly turned pale. The room fell into stunned silence as every eye turned toward him... To be continued.
