Chapter 5 - Rebecca Comes Home Through Darkness
Rebecca explained that she had disappeared after beginning to cooperate
with federal investigators.
Cross wanted to frame her for Thomas’s entire financial network.
Caroline had helped Rebecca collect evidence before her death, while
Vanessa had secretly helped at different stages.
Vanessa was neither innocent nor the mastermind.
She had betrayed Julian’s location years earlier after Thomas threatened
her mother, then later helped Caroline and Rebecca document Cross’s
crimes.
Ethan was tired of learning that everyone in his life had been both more
frightened and more complicated than he knew.
Margaret met Rebecca upstairs.
For more than fifty years, Rebecca had believed her mother willingly
abandoned her.
Margaret had believed her infant daughter died.
Neither rushed into an embrace.
Margaret simply asked permission to touch her hand.
Rebecca allowed it.
Then Rebecca gave Ethan a sealed letter Caroline had instructed her to
deliver only if Cross ever targeted Sophie.
Caroline wrote that Cross was not primarily searching for money.
He wanted evidence Julian hid before disappearing.
Rebecca revealed what the evidence supposedly contained: a recording of
Thomas ordering a murder.
Ethan initially assumed the victim was Caroline’s father, who had died
suddenly after discovering suspicious Halcyon transactions.
But the hidden recording told a different story.
Thomas’s voice ordered someone to “fix the medication” of a doctor named
Andrew Cole.
The doctor had kept copies of secret fertility files.
Julian’s voice then appeared on the recording, confronting Thomas.
A struggle followed.
The audio ended.
Margaret recognized Andrew Cole’s name.
Thomas had financed Cole’s reproductive medicine clinic decades earlier.
Then Sophie found a photograph concealed inside her old music box.
Caroline stood outside Cole’s clinic holding newborn Sophie.
On the back was a sentence Ethan had never seen:
SHE DESERVES TO KNOW HOW SHE CAME TO US.
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Ethan looked at his daughter.
Another secret had just become personal.
