Chapter 3 - Naomi Brooks Finally Comes Forward
Naomi Brooks arrived at the penthouse two hours later.
She was thirty-six, exhausted, and wearing blue scrubs beneath a
raincoat.
The moment she saw Cameron, she began crying.
“I’m sorry.”
Cameron did not invite her to sit.
“Where is my daughter?”
Naomi looked at Sofie.
“Not in front of her.”
The nanny took Sofie into the kitchen.
Then Naomi told Cameron what happened ten years earlier.
She had been a twenty-six-year-old emergency nurse at St. Matthew’s
Medical Center outside Boston.
Emma Hale arrived alive after the crash.
Confused.
Injured.
But alive.
Claire Hale was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
Emma was stabilized and transferred upstairs.
Cameron had been traveling from New York.
Before he arrived, Naomi’s supervisor told her Emma had deteriorated.
Then another physician ordered Naomi away from the room.
When she returned, Emma was gone.
The chart listed a time of death.
Naomi never saw a body.
“What happened to her?”
“I don’t know exactly.”
Cameron’s voice broke.
“Then why did you tell your daughter she lived?”
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Naomi reached into her bag.
“Because six months ago, Emma found me.”
