Chapter 31 - The Shadow at the Gate
Connor tapped the camera control screen, zooming in on the driver's side window of the silent sedan.
Slowly, the rear tinted glass window rolled down three inches into the damp, misty night air.
A gloved hand reached out from the dark interior of the vehicle, dropping a thick manila envelope onto the wet pavement outside the gate.
Without a sound, the sedan accelerated rapidly into the fog, its red taillights disappearing into the dark forest roads.
Connor called Arthur on his private line before walking out to the gate alongside two armed security personnel to retrieve the envelope.
Inside the warm study, Connor carefully opened the moisture-soaked envelope using a brass letter opener while Sarah stood beside him.
Inside lay an old, black-and-white hospital photograph taken in Richmond twenty-eight years ago.
The photograph showed four newborn infants laying side-by-side inside identical hospital cribs under fluorescent lights.
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Stapled to the back of the photograph was a handwritten note written in dark red fountain pen ink:
"You found the triplets, Connor... but Charles Sterling never told you about the fourth child born that night..."
