{"id":26071,"date":"2026-09-30T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=26071"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:06:09","slug":"part-25-julians-original-plan-was-never-to-steal-my-money-and-liam-had-just-activated-the-part-designed-to-make-me-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=26071","title":{"rendered":"PART 25 \u2013 Julian\u2019s Original Plan Was Never to Steal My Money, and Liam Had Just Activated the Part Designed to Make Me Disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julian did not answer immediately.<\/p>\n<p>That frightened me more than if he had denied everything.<\/p>\n<p>The federal agent still held Michael\u2019s recovered message between us.<\/p>\n<p>ROSE FAILED.<\/p>\n<p>USE JULIAN\u2019S ORIGINAL PLAN.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the man I had married and waited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian glanced toward Chloe, then Richard, then the agents surrounding him.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he looked back at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe original plan was never Zurich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZurich was the fallback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My hands went cold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFallback from what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He lowered his voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking your disappearance permanent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one in the room moved.<\/p>\n<p>I had expected another financial scheme. Another forged authorization. Another attempt to make me look unstable while Julian took control of whatever remained.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the word permanent settled between us.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe spoke first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were going to kill her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian shook his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat answer stopped meaning anything a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to kill Claire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen explain permanent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRichard believed your successor authority could be transferred if you were legally incapacitated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMissing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>A missing person could remain alive indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>No body.<\/p>\n<p>No murder investigation with a corpse at its center.<\/p>\n<p>Just uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were supposed to leave the country voluntarily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were building a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The forged financial records.<\/p>\n<p>The suspicious transfers.<\/p>\n<p>My signatures.<\/p>\n<p>The synthetic voice.<\/p>\n<p>A story in which Claire Sterling discovered irregularities connected to her own accounts and fled before investigators could question her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were framing me for theft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinancial diversion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is theft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou would travel to Switzerland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrugged?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitially, no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That distinction made my skin crawl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was supposed to happen there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiam had a private clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe swore.<\/p>\n<p>I stared at Julian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind of clinic?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeurological rehabilitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegitimate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParts of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Everything in this family was legitimate in parts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat would they do to me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian looked down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep you sedated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor how long?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room seemed suddenly too small.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonths?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd after that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRichard believed the succession process would move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRichard?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Across the room, Richard said, \u201cI never approved long-term confinement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I turned on him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou approved enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen be quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He did.<\/p>\n<p>Julian continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce your authority transferred, Liam was supposed to move you somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were my husband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His face tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou planned to put me in a clinic under a false identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile you took control of my assets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Chloe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe\u2019s face changed before Julian answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was part of the cover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian swallowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Claire disappeared after evidence of financial crimes surfaced, I needed a reason not to look like I benefited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I almost laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you needed a scandal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe affair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wanted everyone to think Claire ran away because she discovered us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gave the disappearance an emotional explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou made me evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She stepped toward him before an agent stopped her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou told me you loved me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did care about you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe\u2019s voice shook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do not get to put tenderness inside the machinery after admitting I was one of its parts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian lowered his head.<\/p>\n<p>I understood her anger too well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was Liam\u2019s role after the clinic?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdentity management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew records. Medical files. Travel documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Claire Sterling disappears and some other woman appears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlive but unable to prove who she is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>That was answer enough.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel\u2019s earlier warning returned to me.<\/p>\n<p>Systems did not always need to kill people.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they only needed to make the truth administratively impossible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you do it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I changed the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of conscience?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least he did not insult me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour father\u2019s archive began releasing clues faster than expected. Marion started moving. Richard resurfaced. Liam stopped answering directly to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you lost control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd drugging me at home was improvisation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tea.<\/p>\n<p>The bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph sent later by Michael\u2019s people.<\/p>\n<p>What I had believed was the beginning had actually been the collapse of a longer plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does Michael mean by use the original plan now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiam still has the infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clinic?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwitzerland was one location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus joined by secure call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m searching Liam-linked medical entities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo it fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian spoke again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiam doesn\u2019t need the network anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does he need?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the original frame still exists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe forged financial evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the accounts are frozen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t erase the records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus confirmed from the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I hated hearing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Liam releases the evidence now,\u201d Marcus continued, \u201cit could appear Claire participated in the reserve diversions before extinction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you know it\u2019s fake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know parts are fake. Proving every document is another matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiam built redundancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravel records. Emails. Audio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVideo?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeepfakes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian shook his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only synthetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe recorded Claire without her knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The marriage itself had been surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHome. Cars. Hotels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My hands curled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then you cut pieces together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo make me say things I never said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther times we engineered conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My throat tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou provoked me into saying useful fragments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every argument suddenly became suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Every question he had asked casually.<\/p>\n<p>Every time he wanted me to repeat a number, a name, a complaint about my father.<\/p>\n<p>He had not merely lied during our marriage.<\/p>\n<p>He had harvested it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does Liam have that Michael thought could still work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian looked toward the agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA confession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStealing from the Hart reserves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never confessed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said every sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeparately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus cursed quietly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have a copy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is the master?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan he publish it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat still doesn\u2019t make me disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian\u2019s face darkened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second half does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I waited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiam has a standing extraction package.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen what do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA phrase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat phrase?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the original plan was activated, he was supposed to send one message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My phone vibrated.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone looked at it.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown number.<\/p>\n<p>A photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Not my house.<\/p>\n<p>An airport security image.<\/p>\n<p>Me.<\/p>\n<p>Except I had never been there.<\/p>\n<p>The woman had my face, my coat, my posture.<\/p>\n<p>Below it:<\/p>\n<p>CLAIRE STERLING DEPARTED THE UNITED STATES AT 14:42.<\/p>\n<p>A second message arrived.<\/p>\n<p>YOU HAVE ALREADY LEFT.<\/p>\n<p>No one spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Then Julian whispered, \u201cThat\u2019s the phrase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My pulse hammered.<\/p>\n<p>The original plan was active.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus began checking border systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaire, stay where you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone just created an outbound travel record under your passport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy passport is with federal agents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoesn\u2019t matter. The database shows you cleared departure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere to?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToronto connection, then Geneva.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian closed his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSame route.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liam was not trying to abduct me first.<\/p>\n<p>He was erasing my presence before touching me.<\/p>\n<p>If something happened now, official records would say I had already left the country.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the federal agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can correct it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow fast?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>Not fast enough.<\/p>\n<p>My phone buzzed again.<\/p>\n<p>A news alert.<\/p>\n<p>CLAIRE STERLING SOUGHT FOR QUESTIONING IN INTERNATIONAL ASSET INVESTIGATION.<\/p>\n<p>The article had been published less than one minute earlier by a financial news site I recognized.<\/p>\n<p>It cited leaked banking records.<\/p>\n<p>My forged confession was embedded.<\/p>\n<p>I pressed play.<\/p>\n<p>My own voice said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI moved the reserves before Edward could stop me. Julian doesn\u2019t know everything. If they trace it, I\u2019ll leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cadence was almost right.<\/p>\n<p>Almost.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe stared at the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat sounds like you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But millions of strangers would not.<\/p>\n<p>Another alert.<\/p>\n<p>Then another.<\/p>\n<p>The story was spreading.<\/p>\n<p>Liam understood something Michael never did.<\/p>\n<p>He did not need secret authority if public belief could do the work.<\/p>\n<p>My phone filled with calls.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Former friends.<\/p>\n<p>People who had ignored me for years and suddenly needed to know whether I was an international thief.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor called.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not respond publicly yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Liam wants improvisation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think silence helps?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the next hour, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about law enforcement?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re preparing a statement confirming you are physically in federal custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That would destroy the travel record.<\/p>\n<p>But not the confession.<\/p>\n<p>Not the suspicion.<\/p>\n<p>Julian said, \u201cThere\u2019s more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe original plan included a witness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked toward Chloe.<\/p>\n<p>She froze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was I supposed to say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat Claire threatened you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe\u2019s face emptied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never agreed to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou weren\u2019t supposed to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiam recorded you too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you talked about Claire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her cheeks reddened.<\/p>\n<p>There were probably plenty of angry sentences.<\/p>\n<p>An affair encourages ugly private honesty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did I say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian looked uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings that could be edited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSay them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said Claire would destroy you if she found out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe closed her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>She probably had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said sometimes you wished she would disappear so we could stop hiding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t mean\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For once, context mattered in our favor.<\/p>\n<p>But Liam possessed fragments without context.<\/p>\n<p>The original plan had been built from real pieces.<\/p>\n<p>That was why it could survive scrutiny longer than a complete fabrication.<\/p>\n<p>My phone buzzed again.<\/p>\n<p>This message contained no photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Just an address.<\/p>\n<p>Miami.<\/p>\n<p>A private residential medical facility.<\/p>\n<p>Then:<\/p>\n<p>COME VOLUNTARILY.<\/p>\n<p>OR THE NEXT RELEASE MAKES CHLOE YOUR ACCOMPLICE.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe read over my shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s threatening me now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I understood Liam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s threatening me with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe expects Claire to protect you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe hated me yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Liam understood something I had only recently discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever Chloe and I were to each other now, I would not let another man turn her into collateral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy Miami?\u201d I asked Julian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus searched.<\/p>\n<p>The facility belonged to a behavioral medicine company.<\/p>\n<p>Its beneficial ownership disappeared behind two holding firms.<\/p>\n<p>The final historical investor was Vance Clinical Holdings.<\/p>\n<p>Liam.<\/p>\n<p>The original plan had not been Swiss.<\/p>\n<p>Not entirely.<\/p>\n<p>There had always been a domestic intake point.<\/p>\n<p>A place where a frightened, publicly disgraced woman might plausibly check herself into private treatment before disappearing overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The story had been written long before anyone needed to enact it.<\/p>\n<p>Federal command began planning around the address.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Julian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He met my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you changed the original plan, did you ever destroy any part of it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He swallowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I thought I might still need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was the truest thing he had said all day.<\/p>\n<p>I stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen Liam believes he\u2019s executing your plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you built it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you know where it breaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, fear in his face gave way to concentration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happens there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey need a live medical consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan they fake it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot if federal systems have already flagged your identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Liam needs me conscious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>Always conscious long enough to surrender something.<\/p>\n<p>Then unconscious afterward.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the Miami address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe stared at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not going there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiam wants the woman from his original plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wants to erase you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked toward Julian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we give him the one thing his plan never accounted for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I answered without taking my eyes from Julian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Claire who knows the script.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=26072\">Click here to continue reading: PART 26: I Walked Into Liam\u2019s Miami Clinic Under My Own Name, and the Woman Waiting Inside Was Supposed to Become Me Forever<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian did not answer immediately. 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