Chapter 18 - The Shadow Of The Past Returns
Chloe pulled a thick, worn envelope from her bag, holding it out toward me with shaking fingers.
“When Julian was arrested in Maui, he left a locked briefcase in my apartment,” Chloe explained, her voice barely a whisper.
“I didn't open it until last week when I was packing up my place to move back to Chicago.”
“Inside was a set of corporate bonds and a journal written by Julian’s father thirty years ago.”
My eyes narrowed as David Croft stepped forward to take the envelope from Chloe’s hands, inspecting its contents carefully.
“Julian’s father died in a boating accident in 1996,” David noted, looking up at me with a serious, intense expression.
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“According to these journal entries, the accident wasn't an accident at all.”
“There were two other investors on that boat who took out massive insurance policies on his life three days before he drowned.”
