Chapter 4 - Elaine Bennett Knew the Morettis
Dominic took Chloe to a secure apartment after police released her.
Not as a prisoner.
Not as property.
He gave her a choice.
Hotel under police protection.
Her own apartment.
Or a Moretti-controlled residence while they figured out why her
photograph was in the gunman’s pocket.
Chloe chose the third because someone had already photographed her home.
Dominic told her the truth that night.
Elaine Bennett had worked for Moretti Shipping twelve years earlier.
Accounting.
Chloe laughed once.
“My mother was a receptionist.”
“That’s what she told you.”
Elaine had actually been a forensic bookkeeper.
She reviewed vendor payments for Dominic’s father, Antonio Moretti.
Then she disappeared from company records.
Dominic had been twenty-one.
He remembered his father saying Elaine had found something dangerous and
left Boston.
“She never left.”
“I know.”
“She raised me fifteen minutes from here.”
Dominic looked troubled.
Then Chloe remembered something from the hospital.
Two days before Elaine died, she had whispered:
“Don’t trust the red ledger.”
Chloe thought medication had confused her.
May you like
Dominic did not.
“The red ledger belonged to my father.”
