PART 3: WHAT HE PROMISED HER I started toward the door, but my father caught my arm. “Let him go,” he said. “He’s destroying evidence.” “Westbridge already locked his devices,” …

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PART 4: THE GUN ON MY MOTHER’S TABLE My father put my mother on speaker. “Mom, move away from him,” I said. “Go into the bedroom and lock the door.” …

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PART 5: THE ONE DETAIL THEY FORGOT TO CHANGE The handcuffs closed around my wrists. My mother screamed. “You’re arresting the wrong person!” “Margaret,” my father said, pulling her back. …

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PART 6: THE TRANSFER IN MY NAME Agent Ross grabbed his phone. “Freeze the transfer. Contact Westbridge’s bank and the receiving institution. Nobody releases a dollar.” Maya Chen examined the …

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PART 7: THE PAPERS MY FATHER REFUSED TO SIGN Agent Ross took the phone from my hand. “Nobody goes to that house alone.” “My father is inside.” “And sending you …

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PART 8 (FINAL PART): THE TRUTH HE COULDN’T FORGE I ran into the hallway after my mother. Two investigators stopped her before she reached the elevator. “Mom!” She turned around. …

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PART 3 — THE DOCTOR WHO NEVER EXISTED For several seconds, nobody in Sophie’s hospital room moved. The detective’s final words seemed to hang above us like smoke. Someone pretending …

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PART 4 — THE MAN BEHIND THE GLASS Samuel Hale stood on the other side of the locked hospital-room door. The red emergency lights cut across his face in narrow …

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PART 5 — THE LAST EXPERIMENT For several seconds, nobody in the parking garage spoke. Margaret Hale’s words seemed impossible even after everything we had already learned. Nathan Vale—the fake …

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