Police Officer: We received a 911 dispatch regarding an ongoing kidnap and assault claim at this address. Who called?
Bride: I did! Officer, arrest this man. He has been holding my husband hostage in New Jersey for five years and murdered him yesterday!
Groom: She's out of her mind! It's a wedding dispute!
Lily: I have the location! Here is the key to the basement!
Lily stepped forward bravely, handing the heavy brass key and the wet check to the lead officer. The officer looked down at the child, then at the blood-stained thumbprint on the check.
Police Officer: Where did you get this kid?
Lily: I was living near the warehouse. My dad paid me through the grate with his ring to get help, but yesterday he gave me this check and told me to find Clara at the church!
Police Officer: Dispatch, send a forensic team and units to warehouse forty-two on the New Jersey dock route immediately. Request medical support on standby.
Groom: You don't have a search warrant! That check is inadmissible evidence!
Police Officer: Sir, you just confessed in front of a room full of witnesses. Secure him!
The officers forced Mark to his knees on the marble floor, forcing his arms behind his back and snapping cold steel handcuffs around his wrists. Mark sneered, his handsome face twisted in bitter defeat.
Groom: You think you won, Clara? Without me, your company goes into immediate foreclosure! You'll be dead broke by next month!
Bride: I'd rather be broke on the street than spend another second sharing a life with a cold-blooded killer like you.
Lily: Is my dad really gone, Mommy?
Bride: Oh, sweetie... come here.
Clara dropped to her knees, wrapped her arms around Lily, and held her tightly against her lace wedding gown. She didn't care about the mud or the water ruining her dress. Tears washed away her mascara as she held the little girl who had saved the truth from being buried forever.
Bride: We are going to that warehouse right now with the police. If there is any chance your dad is breathing, we are going to find him.
Police Officer: Ma'am, you need to stay here and give a formal statement to the investigators.
Bride: I am the legal owner of that property and the wife of the victim. I'm coming with you, and no one is stopping me.
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