The dead line remained against my ear for two seconds before I understood that Emily was no longer there.<\/p>\n
Then I was shouting.<\/p>\n
\u201cCall Seattle. Call the hospital. Now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jenkins already had her phone out.<\/p>\n
Daniel grabbed my shoulders. \u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCole.\u201d<\/p>\n
His hands tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s with Emma.\u201d<\/p>\n
The name still came strangely from me. Emma belonged to our past. Emily belonged to the woman on the other end of the phone. I didn\u2019t know yet which one she would choose for herself.<\/p>\n
Jenkins barked the hospital name, department, and Emily\u2019s full legal name into the phone. Her tone was controlled, but she paced fast enough to tell me she understood the danger.<\/p>\n
I called Emily back.<\/p>\n
Straight to voicemail.<\/p>\n
Again.<\/p>\n
Voicemail.<\/p>\n
Daniel started toward the nearest police car.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to Seattle.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not driving anywhere like this,\u201d Jenkins said without looking at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen arrest me.\u201d<\/p>\n
She covered the phone. \u201cThat can be arranged.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stared at her.<\/p>\n
She resumed the call.<\/p>\n
I barely heard either of them. My mind replayed the last seconds.<\/p>\n
Emily saying, Can I help you?<\/p>\n
Cole\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n
My warning.<\/p>\n
Her scream.<\/p>\n
Then nothing.<\/p>\n
I imagined every possible thing that could have happened, and each version was worse than the last.<\/p>\n
My phone rang.<\/p>\n
Unknown number.<\/p>\n
I answered so quickly I nearly dropped it.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily?\u201d<\/p>\n
Breathing.<\/p>\n
Fast.<\/p>\n
Then her voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
My knees gave out.<\/p>\n
I sat hard on the hood of Jenkins\u2019s car.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere are you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSecurity office.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe grabbed me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel crouched beside me, trying to hear.<\/p>\n
Emily continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe tried to pull me through a staff exit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you hurt?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy wrist.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s all?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice are coming.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Behind her, voices overlapped.<\/p>\n
Then she said, \u201cCole ran.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid they catch him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course not.<\/p>\n
Everything connected to this family seemed to survive one more hour than it should.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he want?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said I had to leave before you reached me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said you\u2019re being used.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBy who?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was broad enough to be true.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout your adoption?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout my parents.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her voice tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew my father\u2019s name. My mother\u2019s surgery last year. Where they live now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fear moved through me.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe threatened them?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot directly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Which meant yes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat exactly did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily repeated the words carefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I cooperate with you, the people who raised me could lose everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Jenkins.<\/p>\n
She had ended her call and was listening.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s manipulating you,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Emily\u2019s laugh was brittle.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou called me twelve minutes before a seventy-year-old doctor showed up in my workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t send him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fact that she said it surprised me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou believe that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe you sounded terrified before he came through the door.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fair.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he mention Richard?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat Richard isn\u2019t the person I need to fear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s eyes narrowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho, then?\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily must have heard him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs that Daniel?\u201d<\/p>\n
He leaned toward the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She went silent.<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s face shifted.<\/p>\n
He had heard her voice only through fragments before.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
One word.<\/p>\n
He stopped immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
She breathed out.<\/p>\n
\u201cCole said you knew where I was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said you found me years ago and chose not to contact me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen did you learn I existed?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe day Chloe did. Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily\u2019s silence suggested she did not believe him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew Rose had been pregnant,\u201d he continued. \u201cI was told the baby died.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never said that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked ashamed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause everything kept happening too quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat were you told?\u201d Emily asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat Rose lost the baby after she disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho told you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCole.\u201d<\/p>\n
That silence changed.<\/p>\n
Not softer.<\/p>\n
Sharper.<\/p>\n
Emily had now caught Cole contradicting himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me tonight that you abandoned Rose because you didn\u2019t want another child.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel closed his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not true.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you prove it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at Jenkins.<\/p>\n
\u201cI filed a missing-person report. I sent letters. I hired a private investigator.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jenkins nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have some of those records.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily breathed slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cSend them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI will,\u201d Jenkins said.<\/p>\n
Emily reacted immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho is that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDetective Sarah Jenkins.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want police speaking for my family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jenkins\u2019s expression remained neutral.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnderstood.\u201d<\/p>\n
That earned a pause.<\/p>\n
Then Emily said, \u201cThere\u2019s something else.\u201d<\/p>\n
My fingers tightened around the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCole called me Emma.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel looked up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was your birth name.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe used it before telling me he knew my adoption records.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
Her voice dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said, \u2018Emma, you were never supposed to survive long enough to become a problem.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The world seemed to narrow.<\/p>\n
Jenkins stepped closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily, I need you to repeat that for the officers with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI already did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does it mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody answered.<\/p>\n
Emily\u2019s voice sharpened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does it mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought of the trust.<\/p>\n
If one beneficiary died, the other could activate it alone.<\/p>\n
Cole had falsified one death already.<\/p>\n
Maybe more.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily,\u201d I said carefully, \u201cthe trust requires both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf one of us is legally dead\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her voice changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo this isn\u2019t just about money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone may have needed one of us gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
A long silence.<\/p>\n
Then she said, \u201cWho benefits?\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard, I thought.<\/p>\n
But it wasn\u2019t that simple anymore.<\/p>\n
Richard had failed for decades.<\/p>\n
Susan had forged documents.<\/p>\n
Cole had created identities, medical diagnoses, and false placements.<\/p>\n
And Grandma had built an underground archive because she believed the danger was bigger than one man.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeveral people,\u201d Jenkins said.<\/p>\n
Emily ignored her.<\/p>\n
\u201cChloe?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
That answer seemed to matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood,\u201d Emily said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou finally said you don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
The words stung because she was right.<\/p>\n
For twenty-four hours, I had been collecting facts and turning them into conclusions as fast as possible because uncertainty terrified me.<\/p>\n
Emily lived inside uncertainty too.<\/p>\n
She just responded differently.<\/p>\n
\u201cCole had something in his pocket,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAn envelope.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he leave it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jenkins immediately asked her not to open it.<\/p>\n
Emily said, \u201cToo late.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was inside?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cA photograph.\u201d<\/p>\n
My chest tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
She paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s writing on the back.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does it say?\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily read it.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmma Rose Davis. Deceased at four months.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel went white.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily gave a humorless laugh.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes. I figured that part out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA death certificate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jenkins swore under her breath.<\/p>\n
Emily continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks official.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat date?\u201d<\/p>\n
She gave it.<\/p>\n
Four months after Emma\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n
Daniel gripped the car hood.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat means they declared you dead before the adoption.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jenkins nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cA dead infant could not legally be adopted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the adoption record had to involve another identity,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Emily understood first.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily Walker belonged to someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n
The thought froze us.<\/p>\n
Jenkins took the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily, do not leave the security office. Do not give that envelope to anyone except the Seattle detective assigned to you. I am sending identification now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily\u2019s voice cooled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said I don\u2019t want\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t about forcing you into our investigation. It\u2019s about making sure someone doesn\u2019t destroy the first original document we\u2019ve seen proving the death fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cFine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jenkins handed the phone back.<\/p>\n
Emily asked, \u201cChloe?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho was Emily Walker?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFind out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI will.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. We will.\u201d<\/p>\n
The correction struck me.<\/p>\n
Before I could respond, someone spoke to her in the background.<\/p>\n
Emily answered.<\/p>\n
Then she came back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey caught someone in the parking garage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCole?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
A minute later she returned.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot Cole.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
Her voice changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said her name is Helen Marsh.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rose\u2019s name from the house.<\/p>\n
The woman who had hidden our mother.<\/p>\n
I stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is she doing there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says she came to warn me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWarn you about what?\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily listened to someone off the phone.<\/p>\n
Then said, \u201cShe won\u2019t tell police.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jenkins rubbed her forehead.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course she won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says she\u2019ll only speak to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily\u2019s tone sharpened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t get to make that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
She was right.<\/p>\n
I hated that too.<\/p>\n
\u201cPut her on speaker with police present,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Emily disappeared for several minutes.<\/p>\n
When she returned, another voice was audible.<\/p>\n
Older.<\/p>\n
Unsteady.<\/p>\n
\u201cChloe?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHelen?\u201d<\/p>\n
A breath.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew your mother.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, sweetheart. You know a fraction.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost told her not to call me sweetheart.<\/p>\n
Grandma used that word.<\/p>\n
From Helen, it hurt.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did you come to Emily?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Warren found me yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCole?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he want?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo know where Rose was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you tell him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why come here?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause before he left, he said the girls were finally being brought together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel whispered, \u201cGirls.\u201d<\/p>\n
Helen heard.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaniel?\u201d<\/p>\n
His face broke again.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She began crying.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n
Everything went quiet.<\/p>\n
Then Helen said, \u201cFor helping Rose disappear from you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel stood rigid.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou helped her leave?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe thought it was the only way to keep you alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew where she was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a while.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYears.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel turned away.<\/p>\n
I had seen that motion repeatedly now\u2014people physically turning from facts too painful to face head-on.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t have that luxury.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did Cole say we were being brought together?\u201d<\/p>\n
Helen inhaled shakily.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Samuel\u2019s trust has another condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jenkins looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat condition?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce both beneficiaries are verified alive, every controlling document held by the interim trustee becomes reviewable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInterim trustee?\u201d<\/p>\n
I had never heard the term.<\/p>\n
Helen\u2019s next words changed everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard was never trustee.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel turned back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho was?\u201d<\/p>\n
Helen said, \u201cMargaret.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grandma.<\/p>\n
My grandmother had controlled the trust.<\/p>\n
I thought of her small house again.<\/p>\n
The old refrigerator.<\/p>\n
The patched socks.<\/p>\n
The hidden vault.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut she\u2019s dead,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe successor trustee takes control.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
Helen hesitated.<\/p>\n
Jenkins asked, \u201cHelen, who is named successor?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDr. Warren Cole.\u201d<\/p>\n
The answer landed like a physical blow.<\/p>\n
Cole.<\/p>\n
Not Richard.<\/p>\n
Not Susan.<\/p>\n
Cole.<\/p>\n
The old man who claimed he had only signed what others asked.<\/p>\n
The frightened doctor who said he didn\u2019t know Emma\u2019s final identity.<\/p>\n
He had lied about almost everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would Samuel name him?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Helen\u2019s voice shook.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe original successor was Daniel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone became still.<\/p>\n
Daniel looked at the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Helen continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cCole replaced the page.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith what authority?\u201d Jenkins asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cNone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it was forged.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter Rose disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n
My pulse accelerated.<\/p>\n
That meant Cole\u2019s goal wasn\u2019t simply protecting an old crime.<\/p>\n
He wanted the trust.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe needs both of us verified,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if one of us dies afterward?\u201d<\/p>\n
Helen\u2019s silence was answer enough.<\/p>\n
The survivor could activate the trust.<\/p>\n
And the successor trustee\u2014Cole\u2014could potentially control the process.<\/p>\n
Emily spoke quietly.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo he doesn\u2019t want both of us dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Helen said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe needs one daughter alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
I gripped the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich one?\u201d<\/p>\n
Helen began crying again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then another voice came through from Seattle.<\/p>\n
An officer.<\/p>\n
\u201cMa\u2019am, step back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily said, \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Noise exploded.<\/p>\n
A chair scraped.<\/p>\n
Someone shouted.<\/p>\n
Then Helen screamed.<\/p>\n
The call dropped.<\/p>\n
I stared at the screen.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jenkins was already dialing.<\/p>\n
Thirty seconds later, she got the answer.<\/p>\n
Helen Marsh had collapsed in the security office.<\/p>\n
Possible poisoning.<\/p>\n
A paramedic found a puncture wound in her upper arm.<\/p>\n
She had been attacked before entering the hospital.<\/p>\n
Before losing consciousness, she managed to tell Emily one final thing.<\/p>\n
There was a second page hidden behind Emma\u2019s false death certificate.<\/p>\n
And written across that page was the name of the person who had ordered both girls\u2019 records altered.<\/p>\n
It was not Warren Cole.<\/p>\n
The dead line remained against my ear for two seconds before I understood that Emily was no longer there. Then I was shouting. \u201cCall Seattle. Call the hospital. Now.\u201d Jenkins … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chapter-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6046,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions\/6046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}