Chapter 11 - Charles Returns to the Mansion
Charles did not hide after that.
He arrived at the mansion the next afternoon with an attorney.
He denied using the hospital badge.
He claimed someone was framing him.
He also denied stealing charity money.
The old records, he said, were incomplete.
Then he made a mistake.
He mentioned the library case.
Arthur stared at him.
Nobody outside our small group knew where Rose’s documents had been
found.
Charles realized it too late.
Rebecca asked how he knew.
He changed the subject.
That was not proof of every allegation.
But it proved Charles had information he should not have possessed.
The investigation expanded.
Richard began cooperating fully.
He turned over messages and financial records.
Victoria did too.
Then investigators identified the photographer.
A private investigator hired by a risk-consulting company.
The company had been paid by one of Charles’s longtime business
advisers.
Charles denied authorizing surveillance of Caleb.
Whether he personally ordered it remained unresolved.
I was strangely relieved by that precision.
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I no longer needed dramatic guesses.
The documented truth was bad enough.
