Chapter 9 - The Daughter No One MentionedDavid rushed to the hospital.
Sarah was crying.
“I didn't know how to tell you.”
“Tell me what?”
“When Martin took me, I was pregnant.”
David couldn't speak.
Sarah continued.
“I gave birth in captivity.”
He sat beside her.
“Our daughter…”
“She's alive.”
David closed his eyes.
“Where?”
“I don't know.”
Sarah handed him a photograph.
A little girl.
Six years old.
Dark hair.
Green eyes.
David stared.
She looked like him.
“She was taken from me.”
“By whom?”
“Eleanor.”
David stood.
“She has our daughter?”
“She did.”
“Where is she now?”
Sarah shook her head.
“I don't know.”
A nurse entered.
“Mr. Mercer?”
David turned.
“We found this in your wife's belongings.”
It was a child's bracelet.
Engraved:
EMMA.
David held it tightly.
Then the nurse whispered:
“Someone left it outside the hospital this morning.”
David looked at Sarah.
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She understood immediately.
“She knows we're here.”
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