Chapter 31 - The Unopened Lockbox
The next morning, a second courier arrived carrying a heavy iron lockbox sent from a Swiss private bank.
The lockbox required two biometric signatures to open—one from Clara, and one from an unknown third party.
A digital screen on the lockbox flickered to life, displaying a single line of text in bold red letters:
"Your daughter's beauty was not a coincidence. It was engineered twenty years ago."
Before Clara could touch the screen, her phone buzzed on the counter with a video call from an unregistered number.
She swiped the screen, and the video feed showed a dark room where an old man sat in a leather armchair.
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He held an exact duplicate of Lily's yellow sun hat in his gloved hands, looking directly into the camera lens.
"Hello, Clara," the old man spoke with a smooth, terrifyingly calm voice. "It's time you learned who really created your family."
