INICIAR SESIÓNNoah POV:
The words CONDITION: UNFULFILLED stayed with me long after I closed the folder. Five years. That was how long the protection had remained active, five years since the night my life had fallen apart, since Tracy had been taken from me because of a lie I had been too blind to question, and since someone had decided that a child needed to be hidden from both parents.
Somehow, that protection had never been canceled. I opened the old document again,
Noah POV:The words CONDITION: UNFULFILLED stayed with me long after I closed the folder. Five years. That was how long the protection had remained active, five years since the night my life had fallen apart, since Tracy had been taken from me because of a lie I had been too blind to question, and since someone had decided that a child needed to be hidden from both parents.Somehow, that protection had never been canceled. I opened the old document again, my eyes settling on the date beneath the condition. It was the date of my wedding. Tracy stood beside me with her arms loosely folded, studying the same page, and after a moment she broke the silence.“We need to know how long this type of authority is supposed to remain active.” I nodded because that was the only question that mattered.We returned to the archive and began searching through every record connected to the Kingston Family Emergency Protocol. This time, we
Noah POV:The words in the access register refused to leave my mind: AUTHORIZED ACCESS: KINGSTON FAMILY — SECONDARY AUTHORITY. Someone had entered the old Kingston house recently, someone with the same authority we had spent days trying to understand.They had accessed the family archive and removed records before Tracy and I arrived. I stood in the middle of the old archive room, staring at the empty space where the missing file should have been.For years, I had believed the Kingston family kept its darkest secrets inside Kingston Holdings, hidden behind locked offices, private accounts, encrypted systems, and boardroom doors. I had been wrong. Some secrets had never belonged to the company. They belonged to my family.Tracy stepped closer and studied the surrounding files before quietly pointing out that whoever had taken the missing file had not taken everything connected to it. If they had wanted to erase it completely, they would have removed the surrounding records too. She bel
Noah POV:The fresh access on my phone changed everything. Someone had entered the old Kingston property recently, and more importantly, they had accessed the same family system we had been tracing. Tracy stood beside me near the service entrance, watching the dark house with the same cautious expression I knew was reflected on my face.“We need to be careful,” she said quietly. I nodded, already feeling the temptation to walk straight through the door and finally uncover whatever had been hidden there.But I had learned enough from the past to know that rushing toward an answer could destroy the chance of finding the truth. I tried the door instead, and it opened without resistance. I froze for a moment. The lock had not been forced. Someone had simply left it unsecured. Tracy stepped closer, her eyes moving over the entrance.“Someone wants this place to be accessible.”I considered the possibility that whoever had been here might have left in a hurry, but neither explanation made m
Noah POV:The screen remained unchanged, displaying the same information that had kept us silent for several minutes: PRIMARY AUTHORITY: ALEXANDER KINGSTON. SECONDARY AUTHORITY: RESTRICTED. PROTOCOL STATUS: ACTIVE. AUTHORIZATION TYPE: MANUAL. LAST CONFIRMED: RECENT. I stared at the final line. Someone had accessed the system recently. Not five years ago, but now, after everything we had uncovered.My hand moved toward the keyboard, but I stopped. Then I remembered Tracy warning that whoever had maintained this authority for five years might still be watching the system. If I broke through the restriction, they could realize we had discovered the record. I slowly leaned back.“We shouldn't open it,” I said, and Tracy studied me before a faint softness appeared in her expression. “You changed your mind.” I almost smiled. “I almost didn't.”If the system would not reveal who had accessed it, perhaps it could show us how they had done it. Tracy pulled her chair closer, and together we sea
Noah POV:The words remained on the screen, stark against the darkness of the archive: SECONDARY AUTHORITY: ACTIVE. I stared at them without blinking, barely aware of the tension that had settled across my shoulders. One hand rested against the edge of the desk while the other stayed close to Tracy's, neither of us willing to break the silence.We had finally uncovered something that connected my father, the Kingston Family Emergency Protocol, and the baby who had been taken from the hospital that night, yet the answer we needed most was still hidden, the identity of the person holding the secondary authority. I reached for the keyboard, ready to force my way through the restriction, but Tracy's quiet voice stopped me.“Wait.”My fingers froze above the keys, and I turned toward her. She was still studying the screen, tension visible around her eyes, but fear had not taken over. She was thinking.“We know the identity is restricted,” she said, keeping her voice low.“Trying to force o
Noah POV:The timestamp remained frozen on the screen: 11:31 P.M. I couldn't tear my eyes away from it. Only five minutes separated that emergency authorization from the first known movement connected to Room 814. Five minutes before Claire entered. Five minutes before Victoria appeared. Five minutes before Tracy was pulled into a trap that had been prepared long before she understood what was happening.Someone had already decided that the baby needed protection, and the faded authorization number on the screen suddenly felt more important than anything else we had found. “Something is missing,” I said quietly. Tracy shifted closer.“What do you mean?” I pointed toward the record.“The hospital only received the instruction, this Kingston Family Emergency Protocol had to come from somewhere else.”I opened the old Kingston emergency archive, entering the authorization number first. The system rejected it. I tried the emergency protocol code with the date, and this time the screen cha







