A short time later, Sadie brought me a folded travel itinerary she found dropped on her bedroom floor. The document confirmed two airplane tickets to Bermuda for that exact morning under the names of my mother and my daughter, along with typed instructions stating that I would be out of state and could not be contacted. I immediately reached out to my estate attorney Douglas Carver and local law enforcement to report the unauthorized travel plans and missing identification. Douglas soon discovered that my younger brother Lucas was attempting to secure a massive commercial loan against my corporate equity to save his failing construction business. My mother was assisting him by presenting my stolen financial documents and a forged signature to a lending officer at Keystone Commercial Capital. They had planned to take Sadie out of the country as leverage, assuming I would sign any financial guarantee they demanded in exchange for the safe return of my only child.
