{"id":18879,"date":"2026-09-24T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=18879"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:57:11","slug":"part-12-rebeccas-hidden-son-was-older-than-me-and-his-real-identity-explained-why-stephen-had-never-truly-wanted-the-vale-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=18879","title":{"rendered":"PART 12 \u2013 Rebecca\u2019s Hidden Son Was Older Than Me, and His Real Identity Explained Why Stephen Had Never Truly Wanted the Vale Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The baby in the photograph had lived.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet told us that much immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Everything after that came slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca became involved with Stephen before Margaret did.<\/p>\n<p>Before Eleanor.<\/p>\n<p>Before the St. Agnes system fully transformed.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca understood Stephen early.<\/p>\n<p>Ambitious.<\/p>\n<p>Patient.<\/p>\n<p>Hungry for access.<\/p>\n<p>She believed she could use him.<\/p>\n<p>He believed the same about her.<\/p>\n<p>Their son was born in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur never knew Rebecca was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>At least Harriet believed he did not.<\/p>\n<p>The birth happened privately.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce attended.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas prepared false records.<\/p>\n<p>The child was listed as stillborn.<\/p>\n<p>But he survived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was his name?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never knew the real one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou moved babies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho did?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She took her own child into the network and created another identity.<\/p>\n<p>Not because she wanted to lose him.<\/p>\n<p>Because she wanted to hide him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Stephen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause she realized Stephen did not see the boy as a son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harriet\u2019s expression answered before her words did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn heir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephen discovered Rebecca was Arthur\u2019s unacknowledged daughter.<\/p>\n<p>That meant their child carried Vale blood.<\/p>\n<p>Not through Eleanor.<\/p>\n<p>Through Rebecca.<\/p>\n<p>If Arthur ever acknowledged Rebecca, her son might have a claim.<\/p>\n<p>If Arthur did not, the child could still be used to challenge the estate.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen began constructing possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca panicked.<\/p>\n<p>She disappeared the baby into the placement system.<\/p>\n<p>Then told Stephen the child died.<\/p>\n<p>He believed her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor how long?\u201d Priya asked.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet stared at the old photograph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My mind caught on the phrase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow recently?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonths? Years?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why has Stephen been chasing me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause he thought you were the only usable Vale heir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael shook his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is not enough. Arthur\u2019s trust names Eleanor\u2019s descendants specifically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d Priya said. \u201cRebecca\u2019s child could not simply replace Grant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harriet nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot under the current trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked toward Michael.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArthur rewrote it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter he learned Rebecca was blackmailing Douglas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arthur apparently inserted protective language narrowing control to Eleanor\u2019s verified line.<\/p>\n<p>That made me valuable.<\/p>\n<p>But the original Vale holdings were more complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Several properties.<\/p>\n<p>Shell companies.<\/p>\n<p>Foundation accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Old industrial shares.<\/p>\n<p>Some were tied not to Eleanor, but to Arthur\u2019s descendants generally.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s son could claim pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen wanted those too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who is he?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet whispered, \u201cThat is what Rebecca protected better than anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Detective Cole returned with a tablet.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s aliases were multiplying.<\/p>\n<p>Lydia Shaw.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Miriam Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Three others.<\/p>\n<p>Bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Medical licenses under forged histories.<\/p>\n<p>Therapy practices in different cities.<\/p>\n<p>She had been changing identities for decades.<\/p>\n<p>But one pattern appeared in every period.<\/p>\n<p>A younger male appeared somewhere nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Different surnames.<\/p>\n<p>Same birth year.<\/p>\n<p>1985.<\/p>\n<p>Cole placed photographs on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>A college student.<\/p>\n<p>A hospital intern.<\/p>\n<p>A man at a charity fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>A security consultant.<\/p>\n<p>The images aged gradually.<\/p>\n<p>Same jaw.<\/p>\n<p>Same eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Same small scar near the left ear.<\/p>\n<p>I knew him.<\/p>\n<p>Not well.<\/p>\n<p>But enough.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Bell.<\/p>\n<p>Or Michael Vale.<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Michael standing beside us.<\/p>\n<p>Then back at the photos.<\/p>\n<p>The resemblance was close.<\/p>\n<p>Too close.<\/p>\n<p>Cole noticed my confusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are not Michael.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael stepped forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harriet stared at the images.<\/p>\n<p>Then whispered, \u201cOh God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She pointed to the third photograph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is not Rebecca\u2019s son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is Michael.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room went silent.<\/p>\n<p>Michael looked at her as if she had struck him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you saying?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harriet moved closer to the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArthur Junior had this scar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael touched behind his left ear automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>No scar.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are not Michael Vale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Detective Cole reached for his weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Michael raised both hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He did not answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHands where I can see them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cName.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His face changed.<\/p>\n<p>The calm investigator disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Something colder replaced him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarcus Bell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is fake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael Vale?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso fake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou told me you were my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked genuinely pained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believed I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That answer stopped Cole for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus slowly removed his wallet.<\/p>\n<p>Inside were photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Letters.<\/p>\n<p>A birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>All identifying him as Michael Vale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca gave me these.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harriet shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never met Arthur?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said you did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remembered what Rebecca told me to remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked sick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said trauma erased parts of my childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Priya said quietly, \u201cShe constructed your identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the age-progressed photographs again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen where is the real Michael?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody knew.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus continued.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca recruited him when he was twenty.<\/p>\n<p>He had grown up in foster care under the name Marcus Bell.<\/p>\n<p>She told him he was Arthur\u2019s hidden son.<\/p>\n<p>She produced documents.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Enough to convince him.<\/p>\n<p>Then trained him to investigate the network.<\/p>\n<p>He spent years believing he was recovering his family history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy fake your death?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Stephen tried to kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat part was real?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Celeste\u2019s fake sister?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca\u2019s idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou knew Rebecca as Lydia Shaw?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. As Elaine Porter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not know she was Natalie\u2019s therapist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca compartmentalized everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Even her chosen investigator.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor looked devastated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou approached me as my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou called me family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought you were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her expression softened only slightly.<\/p>\n<p>Pain remained.<\/p>\n<p>But the deception now had another author.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Harriet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould Marcus be Rebecca\u2019s son?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She studied him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWrong blood type.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca was O negative. Stephen was AB positive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Priya immediately understood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe child could not be O.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus said, \u201cI am O positive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen not their son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole ordered DNA collection from everyone willing to provide it.<\/p>\n<p>The case had moved beyond documents.<\/p>\n<p>Too many documents were false.<\/p>\n<p>Blood was becoming the only thing anyone trusted.<\/p>\n<p>Then Eleanor asked the question no one had asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Marcus is not Michael, where did the real Michael go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harriet\u2019s answer came slowly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArthur hid him before Rebecca\u2019s son was born.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael saw something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harriet looked toward the burning remains of the Brennan office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA child being moved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich child?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arthur\u2019s son Michael was a teenager then.<\/p>\n<p>He witnessed Pierce and Douglas transferring an infant through St. Agnes after midnight.<\/p>\n<p>He confronted Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur realized Michael had become a target.<\/p>\n<p>Soon afterward, Michael \u201cdied\u201d in a boating accident.<\/p>\n<p>Another staged death.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur created a new identity for him.<\/p>\n<p>Only Arthur and one other person knew where he went.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Margaret was dead.<\/p>\n<p>Or so we believed.<\/p>\n<p>The repetition no longer felt absurd.<\/p>\n<p>It felt like design.<\/p>\n<p>False death was the network\u2019s most reliable weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Erase someone on paper and the world stopped searching.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of Margaret\u2019s hospice records.<\/p>\n<p>False time of death.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce present.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas involved.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca watching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if Mom did not die?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone stared at me.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond was not there to answer.<\/p>\n<p>But Harriet\u2019s expression changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw her funeral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClosed casket?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harriet froze.<\/p>\n<p>Priya whispered, \u201cWas it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho identified the body?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaymond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he see her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI assume.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is not an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I called him.<\/p>\n<p>No response.<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Cole contacted the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond\u2019s room was empty.<\/p>\n<p>No sign of forced removal.<\/p>\n<p>No alarm.<\/p>\n<p>Security footage showed him leaving in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>Pushed by a nurse.<\/p>\n<p>The nurse\u2019s face was hidden.<\/p>\n<p>He did not appear distressed.<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the screen when footage arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond was awake.<\/p>\n<p>He looked toward the camera once.<\/p>\n<p>Then deliberately placed two fingers against his chest.<\/p>\n<p>A gesture.<\/p>\n<p>I knew it.<\/p>\n<p>From childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Mom used it whenever Dad was telling me something he did not want repeated.<\/p>\n<p>Keep this close.<\/p>\n<p>Do not speak.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond had left willingly.<\/p>\n<p>With someone he trusted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZoom in on the nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole enlarged the frame.<\/p>\n<p>Gray hair.<\/p>\n<p>Slim build.<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s face appeared for half a second as they turned.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet grabbed the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Natalie looked at the image.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harriet could barely speak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared.<\/p>\n<p>Older.<\/p>\n<p>Thinner.<\/p>\n<p>But there.<\/p>\n<p>The mouth.<\/p>\n<p>The posture.<\/p>\n<p>The small tilt of the head.<\/p>\n<p>My mother.<\/p>\n<p>Dead eleven years.<\/p>\n<p>Pushing Raymond through a hospital corridor.<\/p>\n<p>Alive.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor covered her mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie stood completely still.<\/p>\n<p>I felt no joy yet.<\/p>\n<p>Shock was too large.<\/p>\n<p>Anger followed.<\/p>\n<p>Then fear.<\/p>\n<p>If Margaret was alive, every story about her death had been constructed.<\/p>\n<p>By whom?<\/p>\n<p>And why had Raymond let me believe she was buried?<\/p>\n<p>My phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>Blocked number.<\/p>\n<p>I answered.<\/p>\n<p>A woman spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Her voice had aged.<\/p>\n<p>But I knew it instantly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I could not breathe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A quiet sob crossed the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot tell you yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEleven years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou let me bury you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou watched me get married.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>That silence answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou knew Natalie was your daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou let it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her voice broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sent a letter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never got it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho took it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everything returned to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is Dad?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs he safe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did he go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Rebecca has found the real Michael.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Marcus.<\/p>\n<p>He heard the name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Margaret continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every important person apparently did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cName him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Margaret breathed once.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real Michael Vale is Detective Aaron Cole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I turned.<\/p>\n<p>Cole stood three feet away.<\/p>\n<p>His face had gone blank.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody moved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom says you are Michael.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole\u2019s hand dropped slowly away from his weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet began crying.<\/p>\n<p>Cole looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>Then at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told my parents died in a boating accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Margaret heard him through the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole stepped closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His face changed.<\/p>\n<p>Recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Not of her voice.<\/p>\n<p>Of the name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a letter from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Margaret inhaled sharply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA letter I have had since I was seventeen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He reached inside his jacket.<\/p>\n<p>From an inner pocket, he removed an old folded paper protected by plastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told to open it only if someone ever called me Michael.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My pulse hammered.<\/p>\n<p>Cole opened the letter.<\/p>\n<p>His eyes moved across Margaret\u2019s handwriting.<\/p>\n<p>Then stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it say?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>He looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt says Arthur Vale was my father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael.<\/p>\n<p>The real Michael.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Cole.<\/p>\n<p>He kept reading.<\/p>\n<p>His face drained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is another line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked toward Harriet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca did not hide me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho did?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole swallowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStephen Cross.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would Stephen protect Arthur\u2019s son?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole read the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Then looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Arthur knew who Stephen\u2019s hidden son was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought of the baby in the 1985 photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca and Stephen\u2019s child.<\/p>\n<p>The one hidden from Stephen.<\/p>\n<p>The one whose identity could still fracture the entire Vale estate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes the letter name him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His eyes shifted toward Marcus Bell.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus stepped backward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole read the line aloud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca\u2019s son was placed under the name Marcus Bell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut his blood type\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus whispered, \u201cMy records could be false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Another document.<\/p>\n<p>Another manufactured identity.<\/p>\n<p>Cole looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDNA decides it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before anyone could answer, Marcus\u2019s phone buzzed.<\/p>\n<p>He looked at the screen.<\/p>\n<p>A photograph had arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond sat in a chair beside Margaret.<\/p>\n<p>Both alive.<\/p>\n<p>Behind them stood Rebecca.<\/p>\n<p>She held a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Below the photograph was one sentence.<\/p>\n<p>BRING GRANT AND MARCUS TO ST. AGNES BEFORE SUNRISE, OR THIS FAMILY FINALLY ENDS.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=18880\">Click here to continue reading: PART 13: Rebecca Ordered Marcus and Me Back to St. Agnes, but My Mother\u2019s First Words Exposed the Trap Waiting Beneath It<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baby in the photograph had lived. Harriet told us that much immediately. Everything after that came slowly. Rebecca became involved with Stephen before Margaret did. Before Eleanor. 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