Rebecca explained that a severe head injury could cause memory problems, though it wouldn’t necessarily erase a person’s entire identity.
Someone had likely fed him a false history while he recovered.
I thought about my little boy waking up in an unfamiliar place.
Confused.
Hurt.
Calling for his mother.
And being told something that wasn’t true.
I gripped the edge of the table.
“What did they tell him?”
Rebecca couldn’t answer.
But I already knew the worst possibility.
They had told him his family was dead.
CHAPTER 10 — WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO GRANT
Three days later, Miles was arrested near the Canadian border.
He had been traveling with a false passport and almost forty thousand dollars in cash.
His arrest became local news within hours.
The sheriff’s department suspended him.
State authorities announced an investigation into evidence tampering, fraud, kidnapping, and multiple suspicious deaths.
Daniel Rourke disappeared.
