Chapter 7 - Protecting Lily At Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Meanwhile, inside a private medical suite at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, ten-year-old Lily lay in a hospital bed.
Medical monitors beeped steadily as doctors finished treating the deep laceration on her scalp sustained during the fall at the mansion.
Two armed federal agents stood guard outside her door, ensuring no unauthorized personnel could gain access to the young witness.
Arthur, the family patriarch, sat in a vinyl chair beside her bed, his large hand gently holding her small, Band-Aided fingers.
"Grandpa... is Uncle Julian going to catch the bad people who made Mom do those terrible things?" Lily asked softly in the dim light.
"Your Uncle Julian is the best man I know, Lily," Arthur reassured her, stroking her blonde hair with fatherly tenderness. "He won't let anyone hurt you ever again."
The heavy wooden door opened quietly, and Agent Ramirez stepped inside, holding an encrypted digital tablet under his arm.
"Mr. Montgomery, we just ran the toxicology reports on the residue found inside the vial Victoria planted," Ramirez reported quietly.
"And what did the lab find, Agent?" Arthur asked, his voice hardening as he stood up from his chair.
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"It wasn't a nerve agent, sir. It was a synthetic DNA marker designed to prove Lily isn't biologically related to the Vance bloodline," Ramirez disclosed.
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