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Part 1: The Stop That Changed Everything
Her tone was firm but polite. Duty, not suspicion.
He remembered holding his daughter as a baby, her small hand wrapped around his finger. He remembered whispering promises late at night, promises to always find her, no matter what. He remembered the night her mother left. No warning. No note. Just an empty apartment and a silence that never truly lifted.
He had searched. For years. Through paperwork, late-night calls, chance encounters. Eventually, the leads dried up. Life went on because it had to. But the searching never really stopped.
“Please place your hands behind your back,” Officer Chen said.
The words barely registered at first. Then the cold metal of the handcuffs touched his wrists.
