The Clinic Where the Records Were Changed
Chapter 03 - The Clinic Where the Records Were Changed
Claire wanted to go, but Ethan refused to let her risk herself or the baby.
Detective Bennett created a plan.
Claire would answer the message and agree to meet Richard, while police surrounded the abandoned clinic. Ethan would stay with her in an unmarked vehicle nearby.
But Richard anticipated them.
When officers entered the building, they found only Dr. Wallace tied to a chair and a projector playing a prerecorded video.
Richard appeared on the screen.
He admitted that he had falsified Claire’s medical history, but claimed Margaret had ordered everything.
“She wanted the Westmoor name protected from an outsider,” he said. “I only handled the paperwork.”
Then the video changed.
Security footage showed Margaret entering the clinic months earlier and handing Richard a flash drive. On it were copies of Claire’s financial accounts, medical records, and a forged letter stating that Claire’s father had never legally adopted her.
If the letter were accepted, Claire could lose the Bennett trust entirely.
Claire recognized the signature at once.
It belonged to her father’s attorney, Samuel Price.
Samuel had disappeared two years earlier.
Everyone believed he had died in a boating accident.
Dr. Wallace revealed that Samuel was alive.
Richard had kept him hidden in a private care facility under a false name, forcing him to sign documents. The original Bennett trust remained valid because Samuel had refused to alter it.
Detective Bennett traced the facility through insurance records.
When police arrived, they found Samuel alive but heavily sedated.
He confirmed the truth: Claire was the legal heir, and her father had added a protection clause stating that any attempt to declare her incompetent would automatically transfer control to an independent board.
Margaret and Richard had spent months trying to destroy that clause.
Then the hospital called Ethan.
Claire’s room had been entered using a stolen nurse’s badge.
The security camera showed Margaret walking inside with a black medical bag.
Ethan ran back to the hospital.
Claire was gone.
Only her wheelchair remained beside the bed.
On the seat was Margaret’s handwritten note:
THE BABY WILL BE SAFE IF SHE SIGNS.
Detective Bennett traced Claire’s hospital bracelet to the Westmoor mansion.
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Richard had brought her back to the place where the poisoning began.
And inside the mansion, Margaret had prepared the final transfer document.
