Detective Cole paused the recorder.
When she returned, two officers were gone.
“Continue,” she said.
Emily drove to Bellweather through a rear service entrance.
Voss took her phone.
He showed her Tessa, sedated and restrained in a recovery room.
Caroline was there too.
Alive.
Voss offered Emily a choice.
Sign new paperwork surrendering all rights to the embryo, and both women would be released.
“I signed,” Emily said.
“You signed away the baby?”
“I was trying to keep them alive.”
Voss made her stay while his staff prepared Grace for transport.
That was when Emily saw the monitors.
Every infant wore an ankle band.
Payment status.
Babies listed like inventory.
Some had green circles beside their names.
Others had red ones.
Grace’s was gold.
