Chapter 9 - Richard Finds Caleb’s Hospital File
Richard’s role was different.
He had recently accessed Caleb’s medical file through a hospital
foundation contact.
When Rebecca discovered it, I nearly lost control.
“You went through my son’s records?”
Richard insisted he wanted to verify Arthur’s claim about the surgery.
Then Rebecca found a text he sent Charles.
The boy’s condition is real. Arthur wasn’t lied to.
Charles replied:
Then find out what she knows before the wedding.
My skin went cold.
Charles was still alive.
He was seventy-eight and living in Florida.
Arthur had not spoken to him in nine years.
Yet Richard had.
Arthur stared at his son.
“How long?”
Richard admitted Charles had been advising him for months.
Charles convinced him Arthur was losing judgment.
He told Richard I was part of a scheme to steal the estate.
Richard believed him.
Then I asked the question that mattered.
“Who photographed Caleb?”
Richard shook his head.
“Not me.”
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Rebecca warned us not to assume Charles ordered it without evidence.
But the circle around my son was getting smaller.
