Chapter 3 — The Family No One Truly Knew
Chapter 3 — The Family No One Truly Knew
Daniel insisted he knew nothing about Project Lilith.
Police believed him.
At first.
But Victoria's secret room held decades of family documents.
Some dated back thirty-five years.
One photograph stopped everyone cold.
A much younger Richard Whitmore...
Daniel's father.
Standing beside Dr. Adrian Cross.
Both smiling inside a private research facility.
The date:
Another document revealed something impossible.
Victoria hadn't married into the Whitmore family by coincidence.
She had been adopted.
At age four.
By Richard Whitmore himself.
The media had always believed she was an orphan rescued by billionaire philanthropists.
The truth was darker.
She had been selected.
Chosen from dozens of children.
Every adopted child had vanished before adulthood.
Except Victoria.
Elena remembered overhearing an argument months earlier.
Victoria shouting...
"I won't become another experiment!"
Then silence.
No one understood what she meant.
Until police uncovered an abandoned laboratory beneath an old Whitmore pharmaceutical building.
Rows of hospital beds.
Children's toys.
Medical restraints.
Thousands of missing records.
But one room stood untouched.
Locked.
The silver key fit perfectly.
Inside waited only one videotape.
Victoria had recorded it herself.
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"If you're watching this..."
"...I'm already supposed to be dead."
