When I was being tortured by Bryant Fischer, my detective lieutenant father and my chief forensic expert mother were busy cheering for my adopted sister, Evelyn Harmon, at her tennis tournament. After his brother was arrested by my father, Bryant decided to take revenge. He cut out my tongue, and then used my phone to call my dad. But all my dad said before hanging up was, "No matter what you're busy with, you gotta show up at Eve's tournament today!" Bryant scoffed, "Looks like I kidnapped the wrong person. I thought they'd love their biological daughter more!" When my parents arrived at the crime scene, they were horrified by the victim's gruesome state and condemned the murderer's cruelty. Yet they never realized the person who had died so miserably was their flesh and blood.

Chapter 1

When I was being tortured by Bryant Fischer, my detective lieutenant father and my chief forensic expert mother were busy cheering for my adopted sister, Evelyn Harmon, at her tennis tournament.

After his brother was arrested by my father, Bryant decided to take revenge. He cut out my tongue, and then used my phone to call my dad.

But all my dad said before hanging up was, "No matter what you're busy with, you gotta show up at Eve's tournament today!"

Bryant scoffed, "Looks like I kidnapped the wrong person. I thought they'd love their biological daughter more!"

When my parents arrived at the crime scene, they were horrified by the victim's gruesome state and condemned the murderer's cruelty.

Yet they never realized the person who had died so miserably was their flesh and blood.

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My body was found in an abandoned building.

The construction workers, overcome with nausea, called the police at once.

My parents rushed to the crime scene straight from Evelyn's celebra