Chapter 7 - Maren Learns Why Her Daughter Was Taken Away
Viktor signaled the guard to release Maren slightly, though she remained firmly trapped within their reach. "You want to know why we took her from your arms three years ago?" Viktor asked rhetorically.
Maren panted heavily, her eyes locked on Elodie, who was crying out for her mother in the distance. "Because your bloodline carried the rare clotting disorder that the Zurich trust specifically insured against," Viktor revealed.
"You bred her like a prize racehorse just to collect an insurance payout?" Maren asked, her voice hollow with shock. "Insurance is a polite word for survival in our tax bracket, Maren," Viktor corrected smoothly.
"When you refused to sign the medical waiver three years ago, we had to stage your disappearance." Maren remembered that stormy night vividly—the sudden car crash, the men in black suits, waking up miles away in a hospital.
They had stolen her identity, declared her legally dead, and handed her newborn infant over to a proxy mother. Celestine had been chosen because she looked enough like Maren to trick a newborn child into compliance.
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"And now the policy matures when she turns four years old today," Viktor checked his gold pocket watch. "Which means her usefulness to the trust is about to expire, along with her fragile little life."
Maren's blood ran ice cold as the true horror of Viktor's plan finally settled over her mind.
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