Chapter 18 - The False Victory
Vanessa denied purchasing the medication.
She agreed to a search of her bank accounts and devices.
Investigators found no pharmacy payment connected to her.
Then they recovered a deleted conversation between Vanessa and Grant.
Vanessa had asked why Emma was suddenly bleeding.
Grant replied that stress sometimes caused complications.
Vanessa had believed him.
She was guilty of hiding device failures.
She was guilty of helping him humiliate me.
But she had not known he planned to trigger the premature delivery.
The investigators confirmed that Calvin purchased the medication using a shell account.
Grant had collected it.
Grant’s final attempt to shift blame failed.
Elise returned from surgery with her chest closed and her heart functioning.
Noah’s condition stabilized overnight.
For the first time, Dr. Morales used the word hopeful.
Grandfather allowed himself to smile.
The hospital board accepted his resignation as chief executive, effective after the independent investigation.
He would remain founder and chairman without operational authority.
Margaret was appointed interim chief executive.
Keller Medical’s board removed Grant permanently.
Vanessa resigned and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
Calvin, Thomas, the laboratory supervisor, and the warehouse employees involved in the scheme were charged.
The crisis appeared to be ending.
Then a nurse entered my room carrying Noah’s medical file.
“The paternity lab called.”
I frowned.
“No paternity test was ordered.”
“That’s what they said.”
Someone had submitted samples using Grant’s custody case number.
The results claimed Grant was not the twins’ biological father.
His attorney immediately released the report to the press.
Headlines appeared within minutes.
Abandoned Husband Discovers Hawthorne Twins Are Not His.
Grant’s supporters accused me of using my family’s influence to frame him.
The report threatened to distract from the medical evidence.
Margaret contacted the laboratory.
The samples had arrived from Beacon Crest.
They were sealed under my name.
I looked toward the incubators.
Someone inside the hospital was still working for Grant.
Security checked the access log.
Only three people had entered the twins’ area during the collection window.
Dr. Morales.
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A respiratory therapist.
And my grandfather.
