Chapter 2 - Victor Panics Over the USB
Victor stopped fighting the instant Rebecca lifted the USB drive.
“Give me that.”
His voice was different now. Not angry. Afraid.
Michael stepped between them.
“No.”
Rebecca held Noah against her side. Her son’s cheek was red and swelling
where Victor had struck him.
Security moved into the ballroom, separating Victor and Vanessa from the
family while stunned guests backed away.
Rebecca did not plug the USB into a random computer. Michael stopped her
before she could even suggest it.
“Preserve it.”
Hotel security photographed where it had fallen and documented the
velvet box, the bracelet, and the drive while Rebecca contacted her
attorney.
Victor shouted that the USB belonged to him.
Rebecca looked at the bracelet in her other hand.
It had belonged to her late husband, Daniel Hart.
Daniel had given it to her on their tenth anniversary, two years before
his death. Six months after Rebecca married Victor, the bracelet
disappeared.
Victor had blamed the movers.
Now it had appeared inside a velvet box Noah found in Victor’s locked
study.
And hidden beneath the bracelet’s lining was a USB Victor seemed
desperate to recover.
Rebecca looked at her husband.
“What did you do?”
Victor stared back at her.
May you like
“Nothing you can prove.”
That was the first mistake he made after hitting Noah.
