Chapter 4 - THE DOCTOR’S NAME ON THE LEDGER
Dr. Reyes did not run.
She looked at her name on the screen and removed her hospital identification badge.
“I did not authorize those transfers.”
Bianca laughed.
“That is what everyone says after the evidence appears.”
Dr. Reyes ignored her.
“Open the transaction date.”
The first authorization carrying her name had been created eleven months earlier.
Dr. Reyes had been recovering from surgery that week and had not worked at St. Matthew’s.
The biometric confirmation came from a physician credential database managed by Cole Meridian Health Systems.
Richard could copy medical identities as easily as he copied mine.
“Why use Dr. Reyes?” Agent Morales asked.
“Because she supervised Claire’s prenatal care,” Ethan answered.
Dr. Reyes corrected him.
“I became Claire’s doctor after the previous obstetrician left the hospital.”
“Who was the previous doctor?” I asked.
“Dr. Helen Shaw.”
Helen disappeared from the staff directory three months into my pregnancy.
I had been told she accepted a position in California.
Dr. Reyes opened her medical folder.
“Helen reported unauthorized access to Claire’s prenatal samples.”
“Why did nobody tell me?”
“She prepared to.”
“What happened?”
“She was struck by a vehicle outside the hospital.”
The accident had been described as a hit and run.
Helen survived but suffered memory problems.
Her family moved her into a private rehabilitation facility.
Cole Meridian paid the medical expenses through an executive community fund.
Richard had not helped her.
He had placed her somewhere his company could control.
The bracelet contained messages between Bianca and an account saved only as RC.
Bianca:
The doctor copied the fetal file before we removed it.
RC:
Then replace her.
Bianca:
Reyes is asking questions too.
RC:
Use her credentials. If the audit opens, she becomes the medical link.
Richard remained inside the main ballroom with federal agents.
His initials matched the account.
Bianca leaned toward her attorney.
“I was following company instructions.”
“You followed instructions to attack a pregnant woman?” Morales asked.
“No one told me to shove her.”
The admission mattered.
Whatever pressure Richard applied, Bianca had made that choice herself.
Dr. Reyes turned toward me.
“I knew someone accessed Noah’s sample, but I did not know the company had copied the complete profile.”
“What could they do with it?”
“Create false paternity reports. Access the trust verification. Register medical claims before birth.”
The mirror ledger showed something worse.
Cradle Ridge Holdings had opened a custodial investment account in Noah’s name six weeks before he was born.
The account received ninety million dollars from Cole Meridian.
Then the money disappeared into Blackridge Equity.
My unborn child had been used as a temporary owner.
If investigators found the transfer, records would suggest I used Noah to steal from Ethan’s company.
Ethan stared at the transaction.
“I approved ninety million for merger preparation.”
“You approved transferring it to your unborn son,” Morales said.
“I did not know Claire was pregnant.”
“You signed a schedule labeled First Cole Descendant.”
“I thought it was a trust category.”
“Did you ask?”
“No.”
Again, the same answer.
Richard had surrounded himself with people willing to sign without asking because the reward arrived before the consequence.
Dr. Reyes searched the bracelet messages.
One video file had not appeared in the first review.
It showed Bianca inside the hospital garage the night before my fall.
She was not alone.
Ethan stood beside her.
My breath stopped.
The timestamp was 11:46 p.m.
Ethan had claimed he was in Boston that night.
In the video, Bianca handed him a medical envelope.
“The baby is yours,” she said.
Ethan opened the result.
He knew.
He knew before the garage attack.
I turned toward him.
“You said you did not know.”
His face became gray.
“I left before she followed you.”
“You knew I was carrying your child.”
“I learned that night.”
“And you said nothing.”
“I was getting married in three days.”
“That was your concern?”
“I needed time.”
“You had time to read the test and return to your hotel. You had no time to call me.”
Ethan covered his face.
Bianca’s voice continued through the recording.
“If the child is verified before the merger, Richard loses the founder shares.”
Ethan answered:
“Then delay the verification.”
“How?”
“I do not care. Keep Claire away from the hospital records until midnight.”
He looked up quickly.
“I meant legally.”
The video did not end there.
Bianca stepped closer.
“What happens if the baby comes early?”
Ethan’s answer was quiet.
“Then Richard will handle it.”
He had not ordered the shove.
He had handed the danger to someone else and chosen not to ask what handling it meant.
Noah made a soft sound inside the carrier.
Ethan looked toward him.
I moved between them.
“You knew enough.”
Agent Morales received a call from the federal team searching Cole Meridian headquarters.
Richard had activated a remote destruction command.
The founder server would erase itself in twenty minutes.
The only manual shutdown required two people.
The company’s chief executive.
And the architect who built the mirror system.
May you like
Me.
Continue to the next part: Claire must enter the company she was forced to leave while Richard prepares to erase every record before federal agents reach the server.
