Escape Artist

The Other Gabriella Cortez

Gabriella Cortez Aka Ingrid Ashley Thorn
I have always known that I was not really Gabriella Cortez for several reasons. But I am glad that someone finally found me and told me who I really was. My parents left DNA samples just in case something had happened to them and I was finally found and here I am. I am the only heir left to the Thorn fortune. I also found out the people I thought were the Cortez family were the Hyde's. They had me locked up and knew my family was looking for me until they were killed by the Hyde's. I was let go by a friend of the Hyde's who wanted nothing to do with their criminal actions. He gave me money and a phone number of the attorney who had been looking for me. My real name is Ingrid Ashley Thorn the only child of Thomas and Julia Thorn. The Hyde's are in prison and the Lincoln's are now in prison as well. I was in labor when this car ran a light and I killed him and I was so close and felt my life slipping away along with my babies lives I made it to the admitting room and waited my turn. I was finally taken to get examined and they saw the bruises and took photos as they were getting me ready for an emergency c section. I can't breathe I hear things and see things but I am looking down at my body and see my two little daughters start getting cpr to get them breathing again. I guess I died before they could get to them. They finally start breathing and I am no longer alive. My lips are blue and so is my face. I just made it to my sixteenth birthday. I had a will made up to leave everything to my children. So I can go meet my parents.
I watch as the older woman is handed my precious girls after giving birth herself to a son. That should be me holding them, but I knew my life expectancy was not good a couple of years ago a psychic predicted all of this. I thought she was nuts until the attorney found me and the beginning of my new life started after he told me who I really was. We got everything changed over document wise. My daughters would have been Thorns. The father of my daughters was killed by a drive by shooting while I was talking to the attorney who was telling me about my parents and the inheritance they left me. I didn't find out about my pregnancy until afterward. The Smith's buried me in their family plot. Luckily it was close to the Thorn section of the graveyard. A member of the Cortez family tried to claim the inheritance but the attorney proved they had no tights to it at all. Plus they tried to get my daughters but they couldn't do that ether because of the DNA testing. The girls father was buried in a simple grave in a graveyard that was barely seen from the outside world.
Unknown Man
We finally got a shot at getting the Lincoln's and the Hyde's on the same day. They are on two separate flights and they will be the last taken off the flights. Two hours apart and a certain grandmother wants them all dead and buried. I hire eight snipers and give them the targets. The money and the diversions they asked for were in place to assure where the airplanes have to land. At opposite ends of the airport so they will be trying to locate the snipers on one end while the others are in position.
Six hours later the news of the Lincoln's and the Hyde's hits international coverage in a matter of thirty minutes on each report. All my people got out quickly and they picked up their pay at the selected drop off after the confirmation and identification of their kills. We needed eight because we had two Lincoln's and six Hyde's four women and four men. My client was very happy and she paid very well. Later I found out who she was to these people. It turns out they kidnapped more than one of her grandchildren sadly. I heard that she died a month later peacefully in her sleep. I never knew who the grandchildren were and it really doesn't matter at this point. I have a new job to set up. I look at the targets and what they have done to these babies and I have been tracking them and finally they think they are safe after the Lincoln's and Hyde's are dead. The Cortez family as they go by is a huge issue and I need to find the needles in that haystack. I have it down to three couples.
A year later I have rid the world of everyone involved in kidnapping and holding all these babies hostage. Three couples and their employees all died and their new hostages released. I hired people who were going to assure they suffered before their deaths. I made sure the hostages knew their true identities before they were given money and a way to get back to their families. News exploded about the Cortez group and what they were doing. I still don't understand their true purpose of keeping all their victims for so long. But I finished my tasks and my money was waiting and I made sure my employees got paid very well. Never short a trained killer. You have to sleep sometime. I close up my safe room and head out to see my wife and child. She is so beautiful and looks just like her mother. I am a very lucky man, Kate smiles up at me glowing and very pregnant with our second child. Elsa runs to me and I pick her up and swing her around. I love that my wife isn't curious about my clients, she just knows I have kept them very safe at all times. She only knows the half of it that she sees. I never allow the other half near them.
The ghosts have been very helpful in my work. The hotel where we were staying wasn't safe and I got Kate out of there before anything could happen. Later I heard that our room had a bomb planted in it. It was an obscure news piece but an unknown sender sent it to me. Their was no IP address.