Chapter 3 - Emily’s Prenatal Records Do Not Exist
At the hospital, the baby’s heartbeat was reassuring.
Emily had bruising and a cracked rib but no immediate evidence of
placental injury.
Doctors kept her for monitoring.
They documented what they observed.
They did not guess how every injury happened.
Detective Hale took Emily’s statement only after she was medically
stable.
Emily named Ryan as the person who had struck and grabbed her
repeatedly.
She said Linda witnessed some incidents and sometimes restrained her
phone.
Linda denied that.
Ryan denied intentionally hurting Emily.
He claimed he sometimes grabbed her during “episodes.”
Then the hospital tried to obtain prenatal records from the clinic Ryan
had been taking Emily to.
The clinic name did not exist.
The address belonged to a private wellness office.
Emily stared at the screen.
“I went there four times.”
A woman in scrubs checked her blood pressure.
Someone listened to the baby.
They gave her vitamins.
Ryan always handled paperwork.
The wellness office was registered to a company called Lark Medical
Consulting.
Its owner was Dr. Samuel Kerr.
His medical license had been suspended two years earlier.
Vincent’s expression hardened.
“Why would Ryan take her there?”
Emily closed her eyes.
“Because my real obstetrician asked about the bruises.”
Three months earlier, Dr. Maya Patel had noticed marks on Emily’s arm.
She asked to speak with Emily alone.
Ryan became angry.
They never returned.
Emily had believed Dr. Patel stopped accepting their insurance.
That was what Ryan told her.
Now she understood.
He had not changed doctors because of insurance.
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He changed doctors because the first one had started asking the right
questions.
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