> She reached into her little pink jacket pocket and pulled out a small, worn-out black leather notebook. Curled up safely inside the back of his locked car, Richard opened the notebook, expecting to find a threat from the kidnapper. Instead, the book was filled with old newspaper articles from five years ago, suicide obituaries, and official patent documents. On the very first page, written in Lily’s innocent, childish handwriting, was a short message she had obviously copied down from the kidnapper.
> The note read: ‘Daddy, the nice man who took me told me that you took his life first. He showed me these papers from 2021. Why did you steal his family’s medical invention, claim it was yours to make billions, and leave his sick children with no home and no food? Daddy… are you a bad man?’ >
The kidnapper demanded $1 Million for the billionaire’s daughter, but when the father opened the ransom bag, he started crying.
