{"id":19944,"date":"2026-09-25T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=19944"},"modified":"2026-09-25T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:04:09","slug":"part-30-rachel-met-the-daughter-taken-before-the-twins-were-born-but-her-identity-connected-mara-to-a-betrayal-no-one-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=19944","title":{"rendered":"PART 30 \u2013 Rachel Met the Daughter Taken Before the Twins Were Born, but Her Identity Connected Mara to a Betrayal No One Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhere are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel did not answer immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I heard another voice in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Female.<\/p>\n<p>Then a door closing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m at a motel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich one?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDanny\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My voice came harder than I intended.<\/p>\n<p>Then I corrected myself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou get to decide what you do. I get to decide whether I come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel began crying again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lakeview Motor Inn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz was already writing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty-four.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara said, \u201cShe won\u2019t be there when you arrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel heard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMara?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel\u2019s voice hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said you wouldn\u2019t follow me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re with Daniel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara looked toward Ortiz\u2019s weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot entirely voluntarily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz said, \u201cYou can explain that downtown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara almost smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou still think the police station is outside Harlan\u2019s reach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we\u2019re testing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officers cuffed her.<\/p>\n<p>She offered no resistance.<\/p>\n<p>That bothered me more than if she had fought.<\/p>\n<p>Grace watched Mara.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wanted us to find this video.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Harlan buried the first pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you suddenly care about truth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always cared about truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leah laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. You care about data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara considered that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes they overlap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat may be the creepiest thing anyone has said this week, and competition is strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We left for the motel.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz sent another unit ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel remained on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>I refused to hang up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s her name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes she know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one knows everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes she know I exist?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does she think?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A long pause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe thinks you gave her away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told her you didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes she believe you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace sat beside me in the police vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Leah across from us.<\/p>\n<p>Both listened.<\/p>\n<p>I asked, \u201cHow did you find her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMara sent me a file.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Mara in the other vehicle ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you tell anyone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted one hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The words were quiet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne hour where what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere she wasn\u2019t evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That stopped me.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to meet one child without police, doctors, DNA reports, armed guards, or somebody explaining what her cells mean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace looked down.<\/p>\n<p>Leah\u2019s face softened.<\/p>\n<p>I understood.<\/p>\n<p>I hated the risk.<\/p>\n<p>But I understood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is Emily like?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel laughed through tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAngry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leah whispered, \u201cDefinitely related.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel heard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeah?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A pause.<\/p>\n<p>Then Rachel laughed again.<\/p>\n<p>It was a strange sound under terrible circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has your eyebrows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leah touched them automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Grace rolled her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about mine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour habit of asking three questions before anyone answers the first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace almost smiled.<\/p>\n<p>I asked, \u201cAnd me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel went quiet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe fixes motorcycles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leah started laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Grace covered her face.<\/p>\n<p>I stared out the window.<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the things Harlan could steal, he could not stop one of my children from liking machines.<\/p>\n<p>The motel appeared ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Police vehicles were already there.<\/p>\n<p>Room 24 stood open.<\/p>\n<p>My heart dropped.<\/p>\n<p>I ran.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz shouted behind me.<\/p>\n<p>I reached the doorway.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel sat on the bed.<\/p>\n<p>Alive.<\/p>\n<p>Beside her stood a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-eight.<\/p>\n<p>Brown hair pulled into a loose knot.<\/p>\n<p>Grease beneath one thumbnail.<\/p>\n<p>Leather jacket.<\/p>\n<p>She looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Not because she looked exactly like me.<\/p>\n<p>She did not.<\/p>\n<p>She looked like Rachel at twenty-five.<\/p>\n<p>Except for the expression.<\/p>\n<p>That was mine.<\/p>\n<p>The same cautious narrowing of the eyes my mother used to complain made me look suspicious of birthday presents.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDanny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily did not.<\/p>\n<p>She stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One word.<\/p>\n<p>I nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel looked between us.<\/p>\n<p>Neither moved.<\/p>\n<p>Emily finally said, \u201cYou\u2019re shorter than I expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leah entered behind me.<\/p>\n<p>She looked at Emily.<\/p>\n<p>Then me.<\/p>\n<p>Then Grace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is getting ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leah pointed to herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently your younger sister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Grace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace lifted a hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Matthew?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I froze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know Matthew?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily\u2019s face changed.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t tell me that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily looked toward the window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know Matthew?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No answer.<\/p>\n<p>I stepped closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She glared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t use the dad voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have a dad voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three women said, \u201cYou do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even Rachel.<\/p>\n<p>For one absurd second, nobody knew what to do with that.<\/p>\n<p>Then Ortiz entered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily Carter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily\u2019s posture hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t done anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to ask about Matthew Harris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily looked at Rachel.<\/p>\n<p>Then at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe found me two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDNA site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jessica\u2019s ancestry account.<\/p>\n<p>The network had been connecting before we knew it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did he tell you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat he thought Daniel Whitmore was his biological father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI already knew Daniel\u2019s name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy adoptive mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho raised you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarol and Steven Carter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Close to where my father had sent me during Rachel\u2019s later twin pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere they connected to Harlan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily\u2019s mouth tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother was a nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace asked, \u201cAt Vale Women\u2019s Clinic?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel sat down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knew?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she tell you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat my biological mother had been very young and couldn\u2019t keep me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel flinched.<\/p>\n<p>Emily saw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother loved me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily\u2019s anger faltered.<\/p>\n<p>She had expected competition.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel refused to give it.<\/p>\n<p>Emily continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told me the adoption was private but legal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t,\u201d Ortiz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen did you learn?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Mom died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same year Rachel found Grace.<\/p>\n<p>The same year old records began surfacing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she leave?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA letter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily reached into her jacket.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz tensed.<\/p>\n<p>Emily stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlowly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She removed a folded envelope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother wrote that Dr. Vale had given her an embryo to carry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone froze.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel whispered, \u201cCarry?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarol wasn\u2019t my adoptive mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace understood first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was your gestational carrier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach twisted.<\/p>\n<p>Harlan had removed the embryo from Rachel.<\/p>\n<p>Then implanted it into Carol Carter.<\/p>\n<p>Emily continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom said she was told the genetic parents had consented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe gave birth to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd kept you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was supposed to surrender me after delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe refused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel whispered, \u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe and Dad ran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteven knew?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey raised you together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I breathed out.<\/p>\n<p>At least one child had been stolen into love rather than a laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Not clean.<\/p>\n<p>Not right.<\/p>\n<p>But loved.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz opened the letter with Emily\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n<p>Carol described Harlan\u2019s threats.<\/p>\n<p>His demands.<\/p>\n<p>His attempt to retrieve infant Emily.<\/p>\n<p>Then one line changed everything.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz read aloud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Vale did not come alone. A young woman accompanied him and called herself Margaret\u2019s daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother Margaret?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said Daniel Whitmore must never learn the child survived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel went pale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sister?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I shook my head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t have a sister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara had been brought into the motel under guard.<\/p>\n<p>At the doorway, she stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Her expression changed when she saw Emily.<\/p>\n<p>Emily stared back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I looked between them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe came to my shop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara closed her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExplain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara said, \u201cI was looking for Harlan\u2019s subjects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou told me you were my cousin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI needed you to trust me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou took my blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace went rigid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily stared at Mara.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said she could prove who my parents were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara said quietly, \u201cI did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then you disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave the result to Harlan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>Emily stepped forward.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz blocked her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou gave him my DNA?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I needed access to his private archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou traded me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara\u2019s expression finally cracked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily\u2019s eyes filled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are exactly like him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara looked toward the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that accusation hurt because she had spent her life believing she was improving Harlan\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz returned to Carol\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She read the final paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>If Daniel ever learns the truth, tell him Margaret Whitmore came to us once after Emily turned six. She cried when she saw her. She said she had done something unforgivable and wanted to know at least one child escaped Vale. She gave us money and told us to disappear again.<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>My mother.<\/p>\n<p>Forged signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Helped steal Grace.<\/p>\n<p>Knew about Leah.<\/p>\n<p>And later found Emily.<\/p>\n<p>Too late to undo what she had done.<\/p>\n<p>But not too late to help one child stay free.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel whispered, \u201cMargaret knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was my grandmother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe visited once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou remember?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA woman crying in our kitchen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My throat tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe brought me a wooden truck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I laughed once.<\/p>\n<p>My mother had bought me wooden trucks every Christmas until I was twelve.<\/p>\n<p>Emily looked confused by my reaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe did that for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Something softened.<\/p>\n<p>Only slightly.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz\u2019s phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>She answered.<\/p>\n<p>Her expression sharpened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We waited.<\/p>\n<p>She looked at Mara.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour archive index is spreading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree news organizations have it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expected more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wanted it released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou threatened the fetus and archive to force a choice, but you had already scheduled publication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Harlan\u2019s network survives secrecy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd exposing victims\u2019 identities destroys theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI removed full names where possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere possible?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara\u2019s certainty wavered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t get points for partial privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara looked away.<\/p>\n<p>Then Emily\u2019s phone buzzed.<\/p>\n<p>She checked it.<\/p>\n<p>Her face changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She showed me.<\/p>\n<p>A message from Matthew.<\/p>\n<p>NOT SAFE. CLAIRE TAKEN FROM AMBULANCE. DON\u2019T TRUST THE POLICE ESCORT.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz immediately grabbed her radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVerify Claire Harris transport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Static.<\/p>\n<p>Then dispatch answered.<\/p>\n<p>The ambulance carrying Claire had never reached Mercy.<\/p>\n<p>Its GPS tracker had stopped twelve minutes earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew had followed in another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Now he was missing too.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMara.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho took them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho besides Harlan could?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara\u2019s face slowly changed.<\/p>\n<p>Not fear.<\/p>\n<p>Recognition.<\/p>\n<p>She looked at Anna.<\/p>\n<p>Anna was not there.<\/p>\n<p>Michael had stayed at the lake laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Mara whispered, \u201cSonia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSonia is in custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe personally confirmed her detention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou confirmed someone identified as Sonia Patel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>Mara looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSonia taught David how to use facial prosthetics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Another decoy.<\/p>\n<p>Grace whispered, \u201cWhere would she take Claire?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara answered immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the only place Harlan never allowed David to enter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis original neonatal unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel went white.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe twins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mara nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe place where Grace and Leah were born.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=19945\">Click here to continue reading: PART 31: The Search for Claire and Matthew Returned Everyone to the Twins\u2019 Birthplace, Where Sonia Finally Explained Elaine\u2019s Impossible Choice<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhere are you?\u201d Rachel did not answer immediately. I heard another voice in the background. Female. 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