{"id":12298,"date":"2026-09-17T12:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=12298"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:48:37","slug":"part-23-lauras-warning-led-claire-to-chicago-anyway-where-the-woman-who-watched-sophie-finally-revealed-why-northstar-never-let-the-bennett-family-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=12298","title":{"rendered":"PART 23 \u2013 Laura\u2019s Warning Led Claire to Chicago Anyway, Where the Woman Who Watched Sophie Finally Revealed Why NorthStar Never Let the Bennett Family Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel did not argue when I said Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>That frightened me more than if he had.<\/p>\n<p>He stood beside Sophie\u2019s bed with both hands in his pockets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBell\u2019s team is already going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you\u2019re going anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sophie looked between us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI vote Mom goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel sighed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve become very predictable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI support adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sophie looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBring Grandma back if she wants to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final phrase mattered.<\/p>\n<p>If she wants to come.<\/p>\n<p>Choice again.<\/p>\n<p>Always.<\/p>\n<p>I kissed Sophie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLow compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chicago was cold and wet when we arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Bell had traced Laura\u2019s monitoring account to a prepaid connection used near an old residential building in Rogers Park.<\/p>\n<p>Federal surveillance found Helen Price entering the building six hours earlier.<\/p>\n<p>No one saw her leave.<\/p>\n<p>Bell refused immediate entry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know whether Laura is inside willingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelen kidnapped Sophie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat seems relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to understand the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to scream.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I waited in an unmarked vehicle across the street.<\/p>\n<p>Windows darkened.<\/p>\n<p>Rain tapping the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Bell beside me.<\/p>\n<p>An agent watched the building through binoculars.<\/p>\n<p>Then a woman emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Not Helen.<\/p>\n<p>Small.<\/p>\n<p>Gray hair.<\/p>\n<p>Long coat.<\/p>\n<p>Walking slowly.<\/p>\n<p>My body knew before my mind did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell turned.<\/p>\n<p>I was already opening the door.<\/p>\n<p>He grabbed my arm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to confirm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura reached the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>Stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Looked directly toward our vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>She knew.<\/p>\n<p>Of course she knew.<\/p>\n<p>Then she turned and walked away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I ran.<\/p>\n<p>Bell swore behind me.<\/p>\n<p>Laura stopped at the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Did not turn.<\/p>\n<p>I reached her ten yards away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her shoulders shook.<\/p>\n<p>Then she faced me.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years vanished badly.<\/p>\n<p>Not cleanly.<\/p>\n<p>Her face was older.<\/p>\n<p>Thinner.<\/p>\n<p>Eyes the same.<\/p>\n<p>She looked at me the way mothers look at children who are hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Except I was thirty-six.<\/p>\n<p>And furious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I slapped her.<\/p>\n<p>The sound cracked through the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Bell stopped several yards away.<\/p>\n<p>Laura did not touch her face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI deserved that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I started crying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She stepped closer.<\/p>\n<p>I backed away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI buried you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou watched me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou watched Sophie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou knew she was sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura\u2019s face changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot until recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow recently?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My blood went cold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fake appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw Nathan access her file.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you did nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI confronted him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you tell me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you tell a real doctor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen you did nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She closed her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That answer hurt most because she understood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I laughed through tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaire\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. Everybody was afraid. Samuel was afraid of failure. Eric was afraid of his father. Maria was afraid of losing the research. Peter was afraid of NorthStar. Nathan was afraid for Emily. What were you afraid of?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat if I came back, they would take Sophie sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSooner?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She knew about the age-eleven transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Her silence confirmed it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor how long?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stepped back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou knew they planned to take my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was trying to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a lighthouse?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could have called me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought your ignorance protected you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy ignorance almost killed her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura began crying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The front door of the building opened.<\/p>\n<p>Bell raised his weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Price stepped out.<\/p>\n<p>Hands visible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I turned.<\/p>\n<p>She looked almost exactly as I remembered from Sophie\u2019s school.<\/p>\n<p>Orange-scented lotion.<\/p>\n<p>Soft voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to hurt her.<\/p>\n<p>Bell moved between us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHands on your head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helen complied.<\/p>\n<p>Agents surrounded her.<\/p>\n<p>Laura said, \u201cShe brought me here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy force?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>Laura continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe came to warn me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelen kidnapped Sophie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helen said, \u201cI was ordered to take her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNathan got her away from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd now I\u2019m supposed to believe you changed sides?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That answer irritated me because it was getting popular.<\/p>\n<p>Helen continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked for Hearth for fifteen years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cField observer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou inserted yourself into children\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou worked at my daughter\u2019s school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer dentist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChurch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo monitor changes that charts missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMood. coordination. puberty. headaches. social withdrawal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw her headaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd said nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we were ordered to observe, not intervene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The phrase was monstrous in its calmness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou watched a ten-year-old get sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura looked at Helen with hatred.<\/p>\n<p>Helen accepted it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat changed?\u201d Bell asked.<\/p>\n<p>Helen looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacility 19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe destruction order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were supposed to take Sophie there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo transfer her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot kill her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helen hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what I believed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell said, \u201cThe order classified her for termination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not see that order until afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you have obeyed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helen looked at Sophie\u2019s photograph on Bell\u2019s tablet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least she understood.<\/p>\n<p>Bell cuffed her.<\/p>\n<p>Before agents took Helen inside for questioning, she looked at Laura.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura\u2019s face went pale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell me what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helen said nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>Agents led her away.<\/p>\n<p>I turned to my mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura looked toward Bell.<\/p>\n<p>Then me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s somewhere we should go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo more secret places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not secret.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen say it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA cemetery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rain seemed colder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhose?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura swallowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We drove forty minutes.<\/p>\n<p>My mother sat two rows ahead of me in a federal vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Alive.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the entire ride staring at the back of her head.<\/p>\n<p>At the cemetery, Laura led us to the grave I had visited only twice.<\/p>\n<p>LAURA BENNETT.<\/p>\n<p>Beloved Mother and Wife.<\/p>\n<p>Dates.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers from nobody.<\/p>\n<p>I stood beside the stone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat am I supposed to understand?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura pointed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo open it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe grave?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I felt sick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s in there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura\u2019s eyes filled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA woman named Rachel Cole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I had never heard the name.<\/p>\n<p>Bell immediately called for legal authority.<\/p>\n<p>Laura continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel was a Hearth subject.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe died?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe night I was supposed to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I understood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorthStar needed a body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had no family listed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey changed the records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou put another woman in your coffin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura began crying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I could barely look at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you know her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she consent?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There it was again.<\/p>\n<p>Even Laura.<\/p>\n<p>Even my mother.<\/p>\n<p>She had crossed a line.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps under fear.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps under coercion.<\/p>\n<p>Still crossed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou used her body to disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are not different from them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sentence struck her.<\/p>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n<p>She did not defend herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell looked at Laura.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho arranged the substitution?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel did not know until later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaria?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many people buried Rachel and called her Laura?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Rachel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura whispered, \u201cAlmost nobody remembered her name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The grave suddenly changed.<\/p>\n<p>It was no longer evidence of my stolen grief.<\/p>\n<p>It belonged to someone.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel.<\/p>\n<p>A woman whose death had been turned into administrative convenience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComplications from an early vector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you used her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I crouched beside the stone.<\/p>\n<p>Rainwater ran over the engraved name that was not hers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe gets her name back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever happens to you, Samuel, Maria, all of you\u2014she gets her name back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell said quietly, \u201cWe\u2019ll make sure of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Laura.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did Helen say tell me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My mother sat on the wet bench.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Rachel had a daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I froze.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel Cole was Emily Vale\u2019s biological mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entire family tree twisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNathan said Emily\u2019s mother didn\u2019t know about the treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Nathan know Rachel was a Hearth subject?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Voss?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Samuel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot at first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the grave.<\/p>\n<p>Emily\u2019s mother had been buried under Laura\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan spent years trying to save his daughter using the protocol created by the woman whose death had concealed her own mother.<\/p>\n<p>Everything connected.<\/p>\n<p>Not because fate was elegant.<\/p>\n<p>Because the same people kept reusing human lives.<\/p>\n<p>Laura continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel\u2019s death was why I finally understood Hearth would never stop on its own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo fight it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you succeed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least she knew.<\/p>\n<p>Bell\u2019s phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>He stepped away.<\/p>\n<p>Laura and I stood in the rain beside a grave that belonged to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you come back when I got married?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross the street from the church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My chest tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEric said he remembered seeing a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to come inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop letting fear sound noble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She flinched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere you there when Sophie was born?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBirthdays?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchool?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou watched.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you ever think maybe being watched by your supposedly dead mother would not feel like love?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why keep doing it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause watching was all I let myself have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked away.<\/p>\n<p>That answer did not excuse anything.<\/p>\n<p>But it hurt differently.<\/p>\n<p>Bell returned.<\/p>\n<p>His face had changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelen gave us a location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorthStar\u2019s final live monitoring server.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell told her.<\/p>\n<p>She went pale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not just a server.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s where they kept the original Hearth embryos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stopped breathing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmbryos?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArchived material from early reproductive trials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She closed her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaire, you may not have been the only embryo created in my trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rain suddenly seemed very loud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you saying?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m saying there may have been others genetically related to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrothers? Sisters?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell\u2019s phone buzzed again.<\/p>\n<p>He read the update.<\/p>\n<p>Then looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey found the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost storage chambers are empty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne remains active.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My mother grabbed my arm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat label?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell read it.<\/p>\n<p>L-B01 \/ C-B SERIES.<\/p>\n<p>Laura released me.<\/p>\n<p>Her face had gone white.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is my line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is inside?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=12299\">Click here to continue reading: PART 24: The Last Hearth Storage Chamber Contained the One Secret Laura Had Never Told Claire About the Family NorthStar Tried to Manufacture<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel did not argue when I said Chicago. That frightened me more than if he had. 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