Chapter 8 - Margaret Wasn’t Working Alone
Sarah asked Samuel why he waited until Margaret picked up the bat.
“I didn’t.”
He had warned Sarah two weeks earlier that something was wrong at the
villa.
Sarah had already been reviewing Richard’s records.
That was why her team could respond so quickly.
The tactical officers had been nearby executing a related search warrant
when Samuel sent the photograph.
Emily finally understood the timing.
Sarah had not appeared from nowhere.
The operation was already moving.
Then investigators traced the mysterious M contact.
Michael Vale.
Richard’s younger brother.
Daniel stared at the name.
Uncle Michael had served as Vale Maritime’s chief operating officer
during the period Thomas investigated.
He had retired overseas.
At least that was what the family believed.
Travel records showed Michael had returned to the United States six
weeks earlier.
And phone records placed him near the villa twice since Richard’s death.
Margaret’s violence had not been an isolated panic.
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Someone was pressuring her.
Someone who feared the key too.
