Security footage and audio recordings from the Blackwood territory's pack hospital 15 years earlier appeared onscreen.
Mia's biological mother pressed a thick envelope into a maternity-ward midwife's hand and lowered her voice.
"This is $100,000. My due date is the same as the Blackwood Luna's. Put us in the same ward. Once my daughter is born, switch her with the Blackwoods' newborn Alpha heiress."
The footage clearly captured the midwife exchanging the two infants' wristbands.
The scene then changed. Mia's mother carried me out of the hospital and abandoned me in the forest behind it, deep in the Northern Territory. If Granny Grace hadn't passed by while gathering herbs in the mountains, I would have frozen to death.
The entire ballroom fell deathly silent.
I raised the microphone.
