Chapter 6 - Emily Finds The Missing Ledger
The yellow envelope contained more than bank statements.
One page referenced a ledger identified only as E-17.
Charles claimed it did not exist.
Robert insisted it did.
Emily remembered something from the kitchen video.
Before Margaret swung the broom, she had glanced repeatedly toward the pantry.
Police searched it.
Behind a removable shelf they found a narrow wall safe.
Margaret knew the combination.
Inside was the Evergreen ledger.
Daniel stared at her.
“You hid it here?”
“Charles sent it to me three days ago.”
“Why?”
“He wanted me to burn it.”
“Were you going to?”
Margaret looked at Ethan.
“No.”
Emily asked:
“Then why hide it?”
Margaret admitted she had finally decided to expose Charles.
She planned to give the ledger to Daniel after confirming the records herself.
But when Emily opened the envelope early, Margaret panicked.
She feared Charles had people watching the house.
The confrontation escalated.
Emily’s expression hardened.
“You could have told me.”
“Yes.”
“You could have walked away.”
“Yes.”
“You could have called Daniel.”
“Yes.”
“But you hit me.”
Margaret cried.
“Yes.”
The ledger documented decades of transfers.
It also contained a list of beneficiaries.
One name stunned Daniel.
Emily Carter.
His wife.
Emily stared.
“I never received money from Evergreen.”
Maya Reynolds, the forensic accountant, traced the account.
Someone had opened an investment account in Emily’s name eight years earlier.
More than $900,000 had moved through it.
Emily had never known.
The account made her look like part of Charles’s scheme.
Daniel realized why Charles had sent the ledger to Margaret.
He was not merely hiding his crimes.
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He was preparing another person to blame.
This time, the target was Emily.
