Chapter 13 - Secrets Buried Beneath Church Floors
An hour later, Dante and Clara stood in the damp, stone-vaulted crypt beneath an ancient Gothic church in downtown Paris.
According to Gabriel’s digital ledger, a secondary physical backup of the embezzlement files was hidden within the family crypt.
Dante pried open a heavy iron lockbox set into the stonework beneath their father’s memorial plaque with a crowbar.
Inside sat a thick leather-bound journal and a signed confession letter written in their father’s own handwriting.
Clara held a flashlight while Dante read the yellowed pages, his hands shaking slightly as the full scope of Victor’s treachery emerged.
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“Our father knew Victor was embezzling funds twenty years ago, and Victor murdered him to cover it up,” Dante read aloud.
“Gabriel found this journal a week before he died, which is why they had to silence him permanently,” Clara realized grimly.
