Chapter 7 - Henry’s Attorney Disappears With The Letters
Charles Sloan’s office was empty.
Computers removed.
Files gone.
His assistant said he had left unexpectedly the previous night.
That changed the case again.
Sloan had administered Henry’s estate and helped draft the Cole Family Trust.
He knew exactly how the disputed-paternity clause worked.
He also knew about David.
Investigators traced payments from an advisory company controlled by Sloan to David Mercer.
The first payment predated Victoria’s contact with him.
David had not independently discovered the trust loophole.
Sloan had shown it to him.
Why?
Cole Medical’s proposed acquisition provided the answer.
Sloan secretly held an interest in the seller through layered partnerships.
If the acquisition passed, his hidden stake could be worth more than forty million dollars.
Daniel had blocked the transaction.
Noah’s trust proxy gave Daniel enough votes to keep blocking it.
Sloan needed another voting path.
David’s paternity created one.
Victoria became the access point.
She could collect Noah’s DNA, create household instability, and pressure Daniel.
But investigators found no evidence the real DNA would help.
Noah was Daniel’s son.
So Sloan needed something else.
A falsified result.
A draft laboratory report was recovered from his cloud account.
It falsely stated Daniel was excluded as Noah’s father.
Daniel’s anger became cold.
The scheme had never depended on biology.
It depended on making a lie look scientific.
Then Marcus found another file.
A staged photograph of David wearing Daniel’s coat and wedding ring outside the same hotel from Victoria’s drawer.
The metadata showed Victoria had taken the photograph.
It was designed to suggest Daniel was secretly meeting someone.
But whom?
The answer appeared in the next image.
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Claire.
Daniel’s nanny.
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