Marcus continued.
“She came in at thirty-five weeks complaining of contractions and dizziness.”
“Was she alone?”
“Yes.”
I closed my eyes.
“Grant, your name was listed as her emergency contact.”
I opened them again.
“What?”
“Your personal number. Your home number. Your office.”
“She never called me.”
“The hospital did.”
I stopped breathing.
Marcus continued.
“Three attempts.”
“No.”
“Two calls to the house. One to your office.”
“I never received them.”
“I know.”
“How?”
“The office call was redirected.”
I stood again.
“What do you mean redirected?”
“Someone temporarily changed your forwarding settings that night.”
“Who?”
“I’m working on it.”
I pressed a fist against my mouth.
Marcus wasn’t finished.
“There’s more.”
Of course there was.
“There was an attempt to alter her intake file after she was discharged.”
“Alter how?”
“Remove emergency-contact information.”
“Who requested it?”
“I don’t have a name yet. But the access request was connected to a household administrative credential.”
My household.
I thought about everyone who had administrative access back then.
Me.
Laura.
My head of security.
And Serena.
I had given Serena temporary access while she was living in our guesthouse.
Laura had questioned it.
I remembered exactly what I said.
Stop being paranoid.
I felt sick.
“Send me everything.”
A file appeared in my inbox two minutes later.
I opened the hospital intake form.
Patient: Laura Bennett Whitmore.
Pregnancy: twins.
Emergency contact: Grant Whitmore.
Relationship: Husband.
Her signature at the bottom shook across the page.
I stared at it for a long time.
Then Marcus called again.
“I found the transfers.”
“What about them?”
“They didn’t come from Laura’s laptop.”
I stopped moving.
“Say that again.”
“The authorization credentials were hers. The device wasn’t.”
“What device?”
“An administrative tablet assigned to your residence.”
My ears began ringing.
Marcus continued.
“Your internal network logs show the device was active inside the house on multiple transfer dates.”
