Chapter 4 - The Secret Safe
By late afternoon, the massive Greenwich estate was quiet, save for the ticking of the grandfather clock in the study.
Lily was upstairs resting comfortably in her bedroom under the care of a trusted family nurse provided by the local children's hospital.
Ethan stood inside Veronica’s private home office, holding a heavy iron crowbar he had retrieved from the garage.
Behind a large oil painting of the Hudson Valley lay a concealed wall safe that Veronica kept locked with a biometric keypad.
Ethan wedged the crowbar behind the electronic lock mechanism, putting his entire body weight into prying the steel plate loose.
With a harsh metallic crack, the safe door popped open, revealing thick stacks of hundred-dollar bills and a blue velvet folder.
Ethan pulled out the folder, opening it to find original death certificates and life insurance policies from Houston, Texas.
The documents proved that Veronica's first husband, Marcus Kane, had died suddenly five years ago from mysterious liver failure.
Attached to the policy was a six-million-dollar wire transfer receipt routed directly to a private offshore account in the Cayman Islands.
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Ethan’s dark eyes narrowed as he realized his wife was not just a abusive stepmother, but a professional fortune hunter with a trail of dead husbands.
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