Chapter 10 - Rachel Framed Jonathan Years Earlier
Forensic accountants matched Caroline’s ledger to bank records.
Money moved from Reed projects through consulting vendors into Hawthorne-linked entities and accounts controlled by Rachel.
Another $1.8 million went to Sable Ridge Advisory.
Its incorporation papers carried Jonathan’s signature and his cabin address.
Jonathan was stunned.
Laura examined the signature.
Forged.
The company had been built to be discovered.
Enough real information surrounded the lie to make it persuasive.
Caroline’s notes showed Rachel had used the same method years earlier when she arranged the private meeting with Jonathan.
She had not created the brothers’ distrust.
She had learned to feed it.
Facing financial records, messages, and Caroline’s ledger, Rachel agreed to cooperate.
She described growing up knowing Edward was her father while watching him publicly celebrate another family.
Her pain was real.
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So was her fraud.
Michael refused to confuse the two.
