Chapter 6 - Samantha Discovers The Sealed Safe Inside The Hamptons Estate
By midnight, the rainstorm over Long Island had intensified, hammering against the dark windows of the Sterling oceanfront estate in East Hampton.
Samantha unlocked the heavy oak front door with her personal key card, stepping into the dark, silent foyer of her childhood home.
The house smelled of old wood, ocean salt, and forgotten memories, completely deserted after Arthur’s sudden flight from the authorities.
Samantha marched straight into her father’s private library, walking behind the massive mahogany desk toward the wall painting.
She swung the framed oil painting of the Hudson River aside, revealing a heavy digital safe concealed within the brick chimney wall.
Her fingers hovered over the keypad as she recalled a date her father had always kept hidden: her mother’s actual birth date.
She punched in the six digits: 0-4-1-2-6-4.
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The heavy vault lock clicked softly, and the thick steel door swung open, exposing rows of leather binders and encrypted drives.
Sitting on top of the documents was a yellowed envelope containing a recent flight ticket from London to JFK Airport under Eleanor’s name.
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