Chapter 5 - Hannah Left Emily A Frozen Clue
Emily remembered a package.
Hannah had mailed it to her two weeks before disappearing.
Emily never opened it.
They had been fighting.
The package sat in a storage box in Emily’s apartment.
Inside was a flash drive, a fertility clinic bracelet, and a handwritten note.
Em,
If I lose my nerve, make me tell the truth.
Emily cried when she read it.
The fertility bracelet came from Northstar Reproductive Center.
Adrian recognized the name.
Years earlier, before meeting Hannah, he had frozen sperm there before undergoing cancer treatment.
He had been twenty-nine.
The samples were supposed to remain in storage.
Adrian called Northstar.
Two vials were missing.
The records claimed Adrian authorized their destruction.
He had not.
Hannah’s flash drive contained voice notes.
In the first, she said she had taken a temporary administrative job at Northstar.
She discovered irregular transfers of reproductive material.
Patient samples were being moved between storage facilities with incomplete consent records.
She reported it internally.
Nothing happened.
Then she found Adrian Vale’s name.
One vial had been removed under a forged authorization.
Hannah became frightened.
She copied records.
The final voice note was different.
“I think they know I copied the files.”
Emily gripped the table.
Then Hannah said something no one expected.
“I’m pregnant.”
She did not say she had chosen pregnancy.
She said she had gone to St. Matthew after becoming ill and learned an embryo had been transferred during what she had been told was a minor gynecological procedure months earlier.
Emily stopped the recording.
Adrian looked sick.
If Hannah’s account was accurate, both she and Adrian had been victims of serious reproductive misconduct.
But a voice note was not enough.
They needed medical evidence.
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And Hannah’s hospital record contained one missing page.
The consent form.
