Chapter 2: The Woman With Two Faces
Part 2 ⬇️
Detective Ramirez pulled me into the hallway while another officer stayed with Emma.
"Mr.
Mercer." Her voice was low.
"The second house on that footage — we ran the address.
It belonged to a man named Paul Whitfield.
Widower.
One daughter, age five."
I felt the floor shift under me.
"Belonged?"
"He remarried fourteen months ago." She paused.
"His new wife disappeared six weeks after the wedding.
He reported her missing.
Case went cold."
I couldn't speak.
"The little girl on the footage," Ramirez continued, "is his daughter.
She's currently in foster care."
"Why?"
The detective looked at me carefully.
"Because Paul Whitfield d*ed three months ago.
Ruled an accident."
The room felt smaller.
"And the woman he married," I said slowly.
"Do you have a photo?"
Ramirez opened her folder.
I already knew before I looked.
Same eyes.
Different hair.
Different name.
But the same woman who had been sleeping in my house.
I turned toward the living room where Vanessa was still sitting with two officers.
She hadn't tried to run.
She was watching Emma.
Calmly.
Still watching my daughter.
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What Vanessa was really planning — and what she did to that other family — is darker than anything Daniel imagined.
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