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One of the men crouched down and waved to her with a grin that screamed mischief. “Hey kid, come here for a second.”

Hearing the unfamiliar voice, Yvonne stopped in her tracks, tilted her head slightly, and pointed at herself as if to ask, “Me?”

“Yeah, you. Who else around here looks like a kid?” one of them chuckled.

Yvonne glanced around and, sure enough, she was the only child in sight.

Still, they were strangers, and she hesitated. But before she could decide, the group waved her over again and coaxed gently, “Come on, we’re nice people. We just want to ask you a few questions.”

Eventually, Yvonne walked over–after all, this was her home.

Even when standing right in front of them, she kept her little face serious and said very properly, “Mommy told me not to talk to strangers.”

Tinley had drilled that into her every night before bed.

The strange men laughed awkwardly. “We’re not strangers–we’re good people, promise.”

They ushered her into the main hall, sat close beside her, and began their interrogation.

“Hey kid, do you know where we are right now?”

They’d been here a while, wandering around like headless chickens, still clueless about where they’d ended up.

The moment Yvonne nodded, they lit up with hope.

“Really? So what’s this place called?”

Yvonne’s voice was clear and cheerful. “My house.”

Their expectant smiles froze mid–air. For a moment, they looked like cartoon characters caught in a glitch.

Yvonne’s big, sparkly eyes blinked up at them, full of innocence and confusion. And technically, she wasn’t wrong—it was her house. But the adults had been hoping for a different kind of answer.

details they wanted weren’t exactly in a five–year–old’s

patient and sweet, answering every

isn’t someone. Mommy

My name

ask grown–ups. Grown–ups know lots of stuff. But

tone and serious little face completely disarmed them. They were so charmed by her that their questions started veering off–course. Her voice was soft, her answers polite, and she was just so adorably sincere—it was hard not

so funny or interesting about any of this, but she kept answering dutifully–until

said, “You help these uncles with their weird

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her, she’d already slipped away.

face to face with a complete stranger, the group found themselves in an awkward silence.

She had clearly seen a lot in her years and said calmly,

The thing they were most

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looked at them like they were aliens and said, with no small amount of amusement, “You’re at the Holmes estate. Didn’t you know why you came here?”

The name rang

mumbled under his breath, “Our team leader’s last name is

system, they’d heard the rumors. Whispers about Yehuda’s rapid rise, how he always seemed to

came from an influential family. Others claimed the only reason he kept getting promoted was because someone

now, they’d all taken those rumors with a grain of salt. But standing here, in this sprawling estate, the truth was starting to feel very real.

this kind of wealth and reach… it had to be

to how Yehuda had been whisked away the moment they arrived–by people from this family–it was impossible

spoke after that. They just waited

light, like someone who had just found a

he said. “Everything’s clear now. We just need to meet with

out of the hall, each with their own thoughts, the mood

From the moment they’d stepped through the gates of the Holmes estate, he’d known the questions

seeing Tinley, and once they were in the

it’s difficult to determine their true

the regular appraisal institutions can

recalled what Tinley had hinted at earlier and replied calmly, “A leading expert in biological

he added, “He’s a highly respected

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