Chapter 3 - Caroline’s Box Was Never Empty
Rebecca finally admitted she had known Caroline before Michael met her. She had worked briefly as a compliance consultant on one of Caroline’s cases.
Michael felt betrayed twice: by the shove and by the history Rebecca had hidden.
Ethan explained that the brass key had been concealed inside Caroline’s red toy airplane. A loose panel had opened while he played with it.
Sophie then revealed something worse. Rebecca had warned her not to tell Michael about the searches because Caroline had supposedly discovered “something bad” about him before she died.
Police preserved the key. Michael’s attorney contacted the records facility.
B-17 had never been closed. Caroline’s private trust had quietly paid its annual fee for four years.
Under court supervision, they opened it.
Inside were three sealed envelopes, a flash drive, a handwritten ledger, and a photograph of Michael outside a hotel with former business partner Rachel Monroe.
On the back Caroline had written:
MICHAEL DOESN’T KNOW WHO SHE REALLY WORKS FOR.
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Then Daniel opened the ledger.
Rebecca’s name appeared on page one.
