Chapter 3 - Vanessa Was Watching Richard First
Police separated the family and documented Emily’s account. The bracelet
and device were collected. Vanessa waited for her attorney before giving
a detailed statement.
She explained that she was Richard’s older sister and a board member of
Ashford Capital. For nearly a year, she had suspected Richard was moving
company money. His driver logs did not match his calendar, and he
repeatedly disappeared after board meetings.
Vanessa made a reckless choice: she hid a tracker in a bracelet Emily
often left in Richard’s car. The locations led to a townhouse owned by
Marcus Hale, Ashford Capital’s former CFO, fired by their late father
Charles for suspected misconduct.
Vanessa followed Richard once and saw him carry document boxes inside.
Later, money disappeared from an escrow account.
Daniel told Vanessa plainly that secretly tracking Emily was still
wrong. Vanessa agreed.
The location history revealed another repeated destination: a private
fertility clinic outside the city.
Emily had never been there.
Vanessa had never been there.
Yet the bracelet had visited that clinic twelve times.
Then Emily remembered Richard had once taken her bracelet away to
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“repair” its clasp.
There had been another bracelet.
