Eleanor answered.<\/p>\n
No one spoke immediately.<\/p>\n
Her face had become almost expressionless, but I saw her free hand trembling.<\/p>\n
Then a man\u2019s voice came through the speaker.<\/p>\n
\u201cMs. Grant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleanor closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is Anna?\u201d<\/p>\n
A pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me hear her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you hurt her\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou misunderstand your position.\u201d<\/p>\n
His voice was altered electronically.<\/p>\n
Not distorted enough to become theatrical.<\/p>\n
Just enough to remove identity.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me hear my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
A sound followed.<\/p>\n
Breathing.<\/p>\n
Then a young woman\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cMom?\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleanor\u2019s face broke.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnna.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you hurt?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. I don\u2019t think\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
The line changed.<\/p>\n
The man returned.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow we understand one another.\u201d<\/p>\n
Federal agents were already tracing.<\/p>\n
He seemed to expect that.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not waste time looking for this connection.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d Eleanor asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cClaire knows.\u201d<\/p>\n
I did.<\/p>\n
Beneficiary Page.<\/p>\n
Release token.<\/p>\n
I spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need both.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause revocation closed one system but opened another.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat system?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you get nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleanor looked at me sharply.<\/p>\n
The caller laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou sound like Edward.\u201d<\/p>\n
That mattered.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew my father.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho are you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone who learned from his mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat mistakes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBelieving governance could contain appetite.\u201d<\/p>\n
A strange answer.<\/p>\n
Not Richard\u2019s language.<\/p>\n
Not Julian\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Not Liam\u2019s.<\/p>\n
I looked at Samuel.<\/p>\n
He shook his head.<\/p>\n
The voice continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cBring the page and token to Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen Anna dies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleanor flinched.<\/p>\n
I said, \u201cYou don\u2019t need me personally.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour successor identity is now required.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
Revocation had disabled founder credentials.<\/p>\n
But my legal standing remained.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you trying to activate?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
I had touched something important.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat exists after revocation?\u201d<\/p>\n
The caller ended the line.<\/p>\n
Agents immediately began tracing Anna.<\/p>\n
Eleanor sat down.<\/p>\n
I had never seen her look small.<\/p>\n
Not once.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you tell me you had a daughter?\u201d<\/p>\n
She stared at her phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was the same answer she had given about Marion.<\/p>\n
This time it hurt differently.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve known me fifteen years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI kept family separate from work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom everyone?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel looked away.<\/p>\n
I noticed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnna is my goddaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many private relationships am I going to discover before breakfast?\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleanor almost smiled.<\/p>\n
Almost.<\/p>\n
Then Marcus spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found X-0.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot the holder. The structure.\u201d<\/p>\n
He shared his screen.<\/p>\n
X-0 was linked to something called External Continuity Protocol.<\/p>\n
Created twenty-one years earlier.<\/p>\n
Authorized by Elena Hart.<\/p>\n
My mother.<\/p>\n
I felt the floor disappear beneath me again.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mother created X-0?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. She authorized the protocol.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBackup governance if the Hart network became compromised internally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca swore softly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour sister knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My mother had spent her life performing disinterest in money while quietly building failsafes around a system her family could not control.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did External Continuity do?\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus read.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf founder authority becomes compromised or revoked, control over reserve evidence passes temporarily to external custodians.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot listed here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSeparated schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnknown.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cElena.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was no affection in the word.<\/p>\n
Only recognition.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou underestimated her,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all did.\u201d<\/p>\n
That might have been the first comforting thing I heard about my mother.<\/p>\n
Marcus continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cX-0 was the emergency override assigned to the external custodian group.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGroup?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo not one person.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPotentially several.\u201d<\/p>\n
That explained the phrase Richard used.<\/p>\n
People who preferred not to appear.<\/p>\n
Maybe some were criminals.<\/p>\n
Maybe some were custodians.<\/p>\n
Maybe the distinction had blurred long ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did X-0 alter my father\u2019s medical instruction?\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus searched.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause X-0 had supremacy over M-1 during continuity conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat continuity condition existed eighteen months ago?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFounder conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n
My father and Marion.<\/p>\n
Richard\u2019s false death.<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s suspended authority.<\/p>\n
The network considered itself unstable.<\/p>\n
External custodians could intervene.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd one of them changed the dose.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meaning Marion authorized something reckless.<\/p>\n
But someone else turned recklessness into murder.<\/p>\n
Eleanor stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cFind the schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus searched every released file.<\/p>\n
Nothing.<\/p>\n
Samuel stepped toward my mother\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere may be another archive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cElena never trusted electronic systems.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sounded like my father.<\/p>\n
\u201cPaper?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou tell me.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought of my mother.<\/p>\n
Paintings.<\/p>\n
Garden journals.<\/p>\n
Recipe cards.<\/p>\n
Letters.<\/p>\n
She hated my father\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
She spent most of her time in the conservatory attached to our old family house.<\/p>\n
The house I lived in now.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe greenhouse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mother called it the greenhouse even though it was technically a conservatory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe kept ledgers there.\u201d<\/p>\n
I turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat ledgers?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGarden records.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
No one searched gardening notes for financial governance.<\/p>\n
Security had already documented my home.<\/p>\n
But they had not torn apart my mother\u2019s conservatory.<\/p>\n
We could not go there ourselves while someone had penetrated the property.<\/p>\n
Agents searched.<\/p>\n
Forty minutes later, photographs arrived.<\/p>\n
Behind a loose stone beneath the old potting bench was a metal cash box.<\/p>\n
Inside were notebooks.<\/p>\n
Seed orders.<\/p>\n
Planting dates.<\/p>\n
Weather observations.<\/p>\n
Then pages that changed.<\/p>\n
Initials.<\/p>\n
Dates.<\/p>\n
Locations.<\/p>\n
Not financial amounts.<\/p>\n
Custodians.<\/p>\n
Marcus received scans.<\/p>\n
One page carried a heading in my mother\u2019s handwriting.<\/p>\n
External Continuity.<\/p>\n
Seven names.<\/p>\n
Three deceased.<\/p>\n
Two unknown.<\/p>\n
One I recognized.<\/p>\n
Samuel Price.<\/p>\n
I turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were X-0.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at the floor.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
My pulse accelerated.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou changed my father\u2019s medication order?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you prove it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI surrendered my active credential twelve years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen my mother died.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho took it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe chair rotated annually.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNames.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel pointed toward the notebook.<\/p>\n
The last active rotation before my father died showed one designation.<\/p>\n
A.G.<\/p>\n
I looked at Eleanor.<\/p>\n
She whispered, \u201cAnna.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus searched.<\/p>\n
Anna Grant.<\/p>\n
Eleanor\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n
Age thirty-one.<\/p>\n
Government contractor.<\/p>\n
Legal technology specialist.<\/p>\n
Based in Washington.<\/p>\n
My skin tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow old was she when my mother created this?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTen,\u201d Eleanor said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo she couldn\u2019t have been original.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen she inherited it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cExternal custodians could nominate successors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho nominated Anna?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at Eleanor.<\/p>\n
Eleanor shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did not.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleanor stood so quickly her chair fell.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMarion recruited Anna six years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI suspected.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never told me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe made Anna promise confidentiality under the protocol.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was twenty-five.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was an adult.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you kept secrets from her too.\u201d<\/p>\n
That landed hard.<\/p>\n
Eleanor turned away.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long has Anna been X-0?\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus read the rotation.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe became active eighteen months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
The exact time my father died.<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
I refused the conclusion.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing active doesn\u2019t mean she changed the directive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Marcus said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the authorization came from her credential.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleanor looked sick.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe wouldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
I heard myself answer the way everyone had answered me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we verify.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her face tightened.<\/p>\n
She hated the words.<\/p>\n
Good.<\/p>\n
Now she understood.<\/p>\n
Agents finally traced Anna\u2019s last known movements.<\/p>\n
She left her Washington apartment early that morning.<\/p>\n
Security footage showed her entering a black sedan voluntarily.<\/p>\n
No visible force.<\/p>\n
That did not match kidnapping.<\/p>\n
Then another camera showed her outside a private office building.<\/p>\n
Walking freely.<\/p>\n
A man beside her.<\/p>\n
Gray coat.<\/p>\n
The face came into view.<\/p>\n
Liam Vance.<\/p>\n
My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cLiam has her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOr she went with him,\u201d Marcus said.<\/p>\n
Eleanor shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
An email arrived from Anna\u2019s account.<\/p>\n
One sentence.<\/p>\n
Mom, I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n
Attached was a document.<\/p>\n
EXTERNAL CONTINUITY TRANSFER.<\/p>\n
Signed digitally by Anna Grant.<\/p>\n
It transferred her X-0 authority to Liam Vance six hours earlier.<\/p>\n
The room went silent.<\/p>\n
Liam had not merely held a cloned M-1 credential.<\/p>\n
He now controlled X-0.<\/p>\n
That explained the current acquisition directive.<\/p>\n
But not my father\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Eighteen months earlier, Anna held X-0.<\/p>\n
Eleanor whispered, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to consider it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe loved Edward.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo did Julian, once.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s different.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it?\u201d<\/p>\n
She glared at me.<\/p>\n
Then her face collapsed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another file appeared.<\/p>\n
The archive had opened historical X-0 activity after Marcus entered Anna\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
My father\u2019s medical directive.<\/p>\n
Credential: Anna Grant.<\/p>\n
Action: dosage revision.<\/p>\n
Eleanor made a sound I had never heard from her.<\/p>\n
Not a cry.<\/p>\n
Something lower.<\/p>\n
Broken.<\/p>\n
But Marcus kept reading.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an attached note.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom Anna?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He opened it.<\/p>\n
I cannot approve M.C.\u2019s plan. Dosage revision should render intervention medically ineffective. Replace formulation with inert substitute.<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus read again.<\/p>\n
Anna had not increased the dose.<\/p>\n
She tried to neutralize it.<\/p>\n
The archive record we had interpreted as a lethal revision was the opposite.<\/p>\n
Someone altered Anna\u2019s revision after submission.<\/p>\n
A nested override.<\/p>\n
X-0 PRIME.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother layer?\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus nodded.<\/p>\n
My mother had built external continuity with its own emergency veto.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho had Prime?\u201d<\/p>\n
He searched the notebook.<\/p>\n
One name.<\/p>\n
Elena Hart.<\/p>\n
My mother.<\/p>\n
But she was dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuccessor?\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus found a handwritten line.<\/p>\n
Prime passes only by physical instrument.<\/p>\n
Not digitally.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is the instrument?\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody knew.<\/p>\n
Then Rebecca whispered, \u201cThe locket.\u201d<\/p>\n
I turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat locket?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cElena wore it every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
I remembered.<\/p>\n
Small gold oval.<\/p>\n
After my mother died, my father gave it to me.<\/p>\n
I had worn it for years.<\/p>\n
Then stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt home.\u201d<\/p>\n
The intruder inside my bedroom.<\/p>\n
The photograph.<\/p>\n
Whoever had entered my house might not have been photographing the bed.<\/p>\n
They may have been searching for the locket.<\/p>\n
I called security.<\/p>\n
My jewelry cabinet had been disturbed.<\/p>\n
The locket was gone.<\/p>\n
The person holding X-0 Prime could override Liam.<\/p>\n
Could have overridden Anna.<\/p>\n
Could have changed my father\u2019s medication instruction eighteen months ago.<\/p>\n
And someone had just stolen the physical instrument from my house.<\/p>\n
My phone rang.<\/p>\n
Liam.<\/p>\n
I answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is Anna?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVoluntarily?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleanor stepped forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me speak to her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anna came on the line.<\/p>\n
\u201cMom.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you give Liam X-0?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he could prove who killed Edward.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou believed him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe proved part.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat part?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat my credential was used.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know you tried to neutralize the directive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anna began crying.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve lived eighteen months thinking I killed him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleanor covered her mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
For one moment, none of the network mattered.<\/p>\n
Just a mother and daughter separated by years of secrecy.<\/p>\n
Then Liam took the phone back.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see why I need Claire.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Prime.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou stole the locket.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho did?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
He sounded genuinely frightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone else has it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou expect me to believe you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause whoever took Prime just activated it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus\u2019s screen flashed.<\/p>\n
X-0 PRIME AUTHORITY VERIFIED.<\/p>\n
A new directive populated.<\/p>\n
LIAM VANCE \u2014 TERMINATE AUTHORITY.<\/p>\n
Then another.<\/p>\n
ANNA GRANT \u2014 TERMINATE CUSTODIAN STATUS.<\/p>\n
Then a third.<\/p>\n
CLAIRE STERLING \u2014 SECURE IMMEDIATELY.<\/p>\n
Liam whispered, \u201cClaire, whoever has your mother\u2019s locket is about to erase both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho can use it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone with the passphrase.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat passphrase?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Then Eleanor spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour mother told me years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleanor looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said if you ever asked, I was to give you one sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n
My chest tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cTell me.\u201d<\/p>\n
She whispered:<\/p>\n
The roses bloom after the first frost.<\/p>\n
I knew the phrase.<\/p>\n
My mother used it constantly.<\/p>\n
She said it every autumn when tending the garden.<\/p>\n
I had always thought it was about flowers.<\/p>\n
Liam heard.<\/p>\n
He cursed.<\/p>\n
Then the call cut off.<\/p>\n
Seconds later, Anna\u2019s phone went offline.<\/p>\n
And Marcus received one final Prime directive.<\/p>\n
ROSE PROTOCOL ACTIVE.<\/p>\n
Rebecca went pale.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is Rose Protocol?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel answered before anyone else.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe final continuity event.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery hidden account closes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds good.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause closing doesn\u2019t mean freezing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere does the money go?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s expression hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the final designated heir.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus searched.<\/p>\n
Then stared at the result.<\/p>\n
The answer was not Richard.<\/p>\n
Not Rebecca.<\/p>\n
Not Julian.<\/p>\n
Not me.<\/p>\n
The final heir listed under Rose Protocol was Chloe Vance.<\/p>\n
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