Chapter 4 — The Sleeping Bloodline
Chapter 4 — The Sleeping Bloodline
The recording stunned investigators.
Victoria revealed everything.
She wasn't adopted because Richard wanted a daughter.
She possessed an extremely rare genetic mutation.
One capable of placing the human body into an almost undetectable suspended state.
For decades...
Dr. Cross secretly studied children carrying the mutation.
Most died during testing.
Victoria survived.
Richard turned the research into a billion-dollar pharmaceutical empire.
The official goal:
Emergency medicine.
The hidden goal:
Creating a technology that allowed the ultra-rich to fake death, avoid prosecution, disappear, and later reclaim hidden fortunes under new identities.
Project Lilith had already produced dozens of fake deaths across the world.
Victoria had discovered the truth after inheriting confidential files from Richard shortly before his own mysterious death.
She threatened to expose everything.
Instead...
Someone injected her with the experimental compound.
Her heartbeat slowed almost to zero.
Every doctor involved declared her legally dead.
She would have awakened underground...
Hours later.
Alone.
Buried alive.
Only Elena's promise saved her.
But Victoria's video ended with one terrifying warning.
"If I survive..."
"...don't trust Daniel."
Everyone assumed Daniel had murdered her.
Police immediately arrested him.
He never resisted.
Instead...
He quietly said,
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"You're making the same mistake Victoria did."
"You still haven't figured out who controls my family."
