Chapter 8 - Rachel Wanted the House
Rebecca kept listening.
The next part revealed motive.
Rachel planned to file for divorce while David was abroad.
She would seek temporary exclusive use of the house, alleging
instability and intimidation.
But Lily complicated the strategy.
Lily was David’s biological daughter from his first marriage.
Rachel had never adopted her.
She had no custody claim.
If Lily remained with David, the child could contradict Rachel’s
descriptions of life inside the home.
So Lily needed to be elsewhere before the filing.
Susan was supposed to keep her temporarily.
Rachel expected David to face delays returning from Costa Rica because
of a separate legal problem.
“What legal problem?” David asked.
Nobody knew.
Then Rebecca examined the travel papers.
A document had been inserted among them.
It was a customs declaration involving undeclared business equipment
supposedly belonging to David.
His signature appeared again.
Forged.
If presented abroad, it could trigger questioning and potentially delay
him.
Rachel had not simply planned a divorce.
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She had built a window in which David would be absent, Lily would be
inaccessible, and Rachel would control the house.
