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**POV: Laurabeth**The consultation room still smelled of Vanessa's perfume, something expensive and cloying that clung to the air long after she should have left. I stood with my back against the door, heart hammering so hard I could feel it in my throat. Thomas was only a few rooms away. One wrong word and everything I had built to protect him would collapse.Vanessa didn't sit. She paced in slow, deliberate circles, heels clicking like a metronome counting down the seconds of my life. When she finally stopped, the smile she wore was soft, almost pitying."You can stop pretending, Laurabeth. The Zurich records, the timeline, the way Thomas looks at you. I put it together weeks ago. I just waited for the right moment."My mouth went dry. "You're wrong.""Am I?" She tilted her head. "I watched Vinicio fall apart the first time he saw you in that white coat. I watched him start sleeping in the hospital chair instead of coming home. And I watched the careful distance he'd kept from me fo

**POV: Vinicio**The words hit me like a physical blow.“She’s my mom! Dr. Voss is my mom! She just told me! She’s been alive this whole time and she’s my *mom*!”Thomas stood in the middle of the office, chest heaving, one small finger still pointed at Laurabeth as if the truth needed a witness. The door hadn’t even finished swinging shut behind her. She stood three steps inside the room, face pale, lips parted, looking like she had been chasing a storm she could no longer control.I didn’t move.The phone was still in my hand. Teresa’s name had just disappeared from the screen. I had hung up on her mid-sentence because something in her voice had sounded too pleased, too certain. Now that thought evaporated. Everything evaporated.Ten years collapsed into a single, brutal second.The fire. The twin graves. The locket I still carried. The nights I sat beside Thomas’s crib inventing stories about a mother who smelled like rain and irises. The way I had rebuilt an empire around a hole s

**POV: Laurabeth**The loading dock door still swung gently on its hinges, letting in the cold night air and the fading growl of an engine. The unmarked van was already gone. Taillights had vanished around the corner before either of us could reach the fence.Thomas was gone.The knowledge hit me like a physical blow. My knees threatened to give out, but I locked them and forced myself to keep standing. Panic was a luxury I could not afford. Not when my son’s life depended on the next decisions I made.Vinicio stood beside me, gun still raised toward the empty street, breathing hard. The muscle in his jaw ticked once, twice. When he finally lowered the weapon, his voice was pure ice.“Alex. Full lockdown on every exit. Pull every camera feed from the last fifteen minutes. East service corridor, laundry dock, parking structure. Now.”Alex’s voice came through the earpiece, strained and bloody. “Already on it, boss. Head’s ringing but I’m functional. Pulling footage now.”I turned back