Chapter 5 - Vanessa Believed Daniel Was Dangerous
Vanessa claimed Rachel had shown her documents proving Daniel planned to
send Lily to boarding school overseas.
There were emails.
Psychological evaluations.
A draft guardianship transfer.
All supposedly created by Daniel.
He had never seen them.
Eric examined the papers.
“They’re fabricated.”
Vanessa went pale.
Rachel had also told her Daniel was selling Caroline’s belongings and
trying to erase her memory from Lily’s life.
That explained the jewelry and photographs in the crates.
Vanessa believed she was saving them.
Daniel stared at her.
“You helped steal my daughter because Rachel showed you paperwork?”
Vanessa cried.
“I thought you were taking her away from our family.”
“You could have asked me.”
“I didn’t think you’d tell the truth.”
That answer hurt.
Daniel and Vanessa had argued bitterly after Caroline’s death.
Grief had turned every disagreement into suspicion.
Rachel had used that fracture.
But one question remained.
Why?
Rachel had no parental claim to Lily.
No obvious reason to risk everything.
Then Eric found a second set of documents in the van.
A life-insurance trust.
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Beneficiary: Lily Blake.
Current value: $14.6 million.
