Chapter 5 - The Cameras Reveal a Second Visitor
The missing twenty-six minutes from the security system were not
recoverable from our local recorder.
But our neighbor’s doorbell camera covered part of our driveway.
At 2:09 a.m., a woman walked toward our side gate.
She wore a hooded coat and carried a black case.
At 2:27, she left.
Richard’s SUV remained in the garage.
I recognized her gait before I recognized her face.
Melissa Grant.
Richard’s former executive assistant.
She had supposedly moved to Florida three years earlier.
Mathilde went still when I showed her.
“That’s the name.”
“What name?”
“The contact person listed for Cross Harbor Advisory.”
My skin went cold.
Julian Cross’s name was on the account.
Melissa Grant was attached to the entity.
Two people who were supposed to have disappeared from our lives had
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suddenly reappeared around my money.
And one had entered my property the night my head was shaved.
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