Chapter 9 - Evelyn Wanted Claire’s Evidence
Police found Evelyn at a hotel nearby.
She initially denied everything.
Then investigators showed her the video.
Her story changed.
Claire had contacted Evelyn six months earlier.
Alive.
She wanted to reconnect with Victoria.
But she also wanted something returned.
A metal document box Claire had left with Evelyn before disappearing.
Evelyn claimed she no longer had it.
That was a lie.
Inside the box were records proving William Blake had used shell
companies to hide investor losses.
But William was dead.
Why hide them now?
Because the records also implicated Evelyn.
Claire had trusted her sister.
Evelyn had secretly accepted money from William to persuade Claire to
disappear.
Then, after Claire vanished, Evelyn kept taking payments.
Victoria stared at the woman who had raised her.
“You were paid to keep my mother away from me?”
Evelyn cried.
“At first I thought I was protecting you.”
Victoria’s expression hardened.
“At first?”
Evelyn had eventually understood William’s real motive.
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By then, she was financially trapped and terrified Claire would expose
her too.
