Chapter 2 - The Federal BreachCRASH!
Glass shattered in the grand corridor. Heavy boots echoed against the marble.
A womanâs voice boomed above the organ music: âFederal agents! Step away from that door!â
The heavy lock burst inward under a hydraulic ram.
Agent Maya Sloan entered beside two paramedics, but she was not looking at me. She was staring at the half-empty cup of ginger tea sitting beside my purseâtea Evelyn had insisted I drink thirty minutes before the ceremony.
âBag that now,â Maya instructed an officer. âWhatever started this labor prematurely is sitting in that glass.â
Paramedics lifted me onto a gurney as a contraction racked my body.
âEvelyn had draft papers prepared,â Maya said quickly, leaning over me as they rolled the gurney into the hall. âIf you gave birth alone in a locked room without medical records, she was filing for immediate emergency guardianship of the child, claiming you were incapacitated and Daniel had abandoned you.â
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âWhere is Daniel?â I sobbed, clutching Mayaâs sleeve. âWhere is my husband?â
Maya looked toward the rear estate gardens. âOur team just tracked his phone signal to the historic wine cellar beneath the oak grove.â
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