Chapter 2 - Beatrice Entered Before We Did
Leo was stabilized at the hospital before midnight.
Doctors found evidence consistent with exposure to a sedating
medication, but they would not guess how it entered his system until
testing was complete.
The puncture-like mark was photographed.
I sat beside his crib while Dad spoke quietly with an attorney and the
hotel’s security director.
He did not seize anything.
He asked that relevant records be preserved.
At 1:18 a.m., we saw the first hallway clip.
Beatrice entered the private suite forty-three minutes before I carried
Leo inside.
She had a hotel key.
She stayed six minutes.
When she came out, she was holding a small black pouch she had not
carried in.
Then Ryan appeared.
He looked down both directions of the hallway.
Entered the same room.
Stayed ninety seconds.
And left.
I stared at my husband on the screen.
Dad said nothing.
He did not have to.
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Ryan had known there was something in that room before I ever took our
son upstairs.
