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Chapter 63: The Place They Sent Him
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Rise Of The Hidden Heiress: From Asylum To Billionaire CEO Chapter 64: The Child They Renamed
Adrain's Pov Hawthorne Children's Home stood at the end of a long gravel drive, a gray stone building with tall windows and a roof in need of repair. I parked near the front steps. Emily was out of the car before the engine stopped.She held the photograph of Eleanor and baby Kael in one hand. She did not want another trail of clues. She wanted to know what had happened to her brother.Inside, the entrance hall smelled of floor polish and old paper. Children's drawings were pinned along one wall, and somewhere above us a door closed softly. The woman at the front desk told us the home was old and that many of its records had been moved to a secure archive. Emily didn't let her finish."I need to speak to whoever can open the original admissions records," she said. "Today."The administrator saw her face and picked up the phone.Twenty minutes later, we sat in a small office with a view of the empty garden. The administrator, a careful woman with gray hair, had Mason's transfer refere
Rise Of The Hidden Heiress: From Asylum To Billionaire CEO Chapter 63: The Place They Sent Him
Adrain's Pov I drove fast, one hand on the wheel, while Mason read the storage facility's address aloud from the passenger seat. Emily sat in the back, holding the photograph of Eleanor and baby Kael close to her chest.For a while, nobody mentioned the message. SHE FOUND HIM was still in all our minds, but we had no way to explain it yet, and arguing over it would only waste time. Emily had asked me once, in the first mile, whether I thought it meant her mother. I told her I didn't know. She nodded and didn't ask again."Someone reviewed the archive reference six days ago," Mason said. "I can't prove it was the person who trapped us. But whoever it was, they were already looking.""Then we get there first," I said."We find out what happened to my brother after the annex," Emily said from the back. "That's all I care about right now."The storage facility was a long gray building at the edge of an industrial park. Inside, the air smelled of cardboard and old dust. Mason handed the a
Rise Of The Hidden Heiress: From Asylum To Billionaire CEO CHAPTER 62: THE PERSON WHO WAS WATCHING
Emily's Pov Adrian shoved against the heavy door, but the thick metal pipe wedged outside held firm. Someone had trapped us inside the moment we uncovered the photograph, and whomever it was had already vanished into the surrounding darkness.Mason stood behind him, clutching the photograph and envelope against his chest. Neither of us knew how far the intruder had gone or whether they were still nearby.I wanted to go after whoever had done this to us. Every instinct in my body pushed me back toward the long dark corridor behind us."Not like this," Adrian said, reading my expression easily. "Chasing someone through an abandoned building we do not know, in the pitch dark, is how we lose the evidence. Or worse."He was right. I hated admitting that, but he was right."Out first," I said quietly, forcing my voice to remain steady. "Then we deal with whoever did this."Anger sat hot and heavy in my chest, but beneath it, something much colder was forming. Someone knew Kael had survived
Rise Of The Hidden Heiress: From Asylum To Billionaire CEO Chapter 61: The Building That Wasn't There
Emily's PovThe second travel log sat open on the table, and I had not stopped looking at it since Mason found it.Forty-eight hours after the first transfer. A different name for Kael. A destination outside the city limits that appeared in no standard record."He was moved twice," I said. "That is not someone letting a child disappear quietly. That is someone keeping him somewhere specific."Adrian read the log upside down. "A routing reference and a destination with no name. That is not much.""It is more than we had yesterday. We already know Kael survived. I am not searching for proof of that anymore. I am searching for the missing years of his life. This building is where they start."He nodded. "Send the address to my phone."Mason worked while we talked. He had the routing reference on one screen and a property archive on the other. "Found it. The facility operated under a different designation. A private medical annex registered to a holding company that dissolved years ago. T
Rise Of The Hidden Heiress: From Asylum To Billionaire CEO Chapter 60: The Truth That Survived
Emily's PovI was done waiting.Adrian had sent me a message that said little and implied everything, the way he always did when he thought he was protecting me from something. Mason had found a lead. The archive was involved. He would explain when he had more. I read it twice, put my phone in my pocket, and drove to the storage facility myself.He was standing by a table when I came through the door, a dark bound ledger open in front of him, Mason at his shoulder with a laptop balanced on a stack of boxes. Neither of them looked surprised to see me. That told me more than the message had."You should have called me," I said."I was going to," Adrian said."You were going to explain it to me afterward. That isn't the same thing."He held my gaze for a moment and then, to his credit, did not argue. He stepped aside so I could see the ledger."Someone else requested access to this archive," he said. "Before we arrived. Through legitimate channels. We don't know who yet.""And?""And the
Rise Of The Hidden Heiress: From Asylum To Billionaire CEO Chapter 59: The Man Behind the Record
Adrian’s PovI kept staring at the name on the screen, refusing to let myself react to it yet.Mason waited beside me, watching my face for something I wasn't ready to give him. The name was familiar, the familiar that came from years of standing close enough to the Grant and Kingsley circles that nobody ever thought to question their presence in a room."Establish what this actually proves," I told him. "Before we approach anyone."He nodded once and went back to work.Whoever this was, they might have witnessed every piece of my family's grief without ever looking suspicious. That thought settled somewhere cold in my chest and stayed there."The former director and the name attached to the company," Mason said after a while, not looking up from his screen. "Those aren't necessarily the same person."I asked him to explain exactly what he meant.The director was still alive, reachable, someone who might know who had controlled the company and authorized the original payment, a living
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