Chapter 6 - Sarah Learns Her Mother Survived
Rebecca Lane had worked with Evelyn at Whitmore Financial.
She and Thomas discovered the first hidden retirement transfers
together. They fell in love during the investigation, and Sarah was born
soon afterward.
When Charles learned Rebecca had copied internal records, he threatened
her with prosecution.
Margaret offered her a choice: disappear or risk bringing the entire
Whitmore machine down on Thomas and baby Sarah.
Rebecca vanished.
Thomas told Sarah she had died because he believed grief was safer than
fear.
Sarah stared at him.
“You chose my reality for me.”
Thomas whispered, “Yes.”
“Where is she?”
“I don’t know.”
Evelyn did.
Rebecca had contacted her eight years earlier under the name Anna Reed.
She was still investigating the old financial network.
Maya searched photographs from Sarah and Daniel’s wedding.
One image stopped everyone.
A woman stood near the back of the ballroom.
Thomas whispered, “Rebecca.”
Sarah’s mother had attended her wedding from a distance.
Maya enlarged the image.
Rebecca was not looking at Sarah.
She was staring at Margaret.
Margaret was staring back.
The two women knew each other was there.
Daniel finally saw the architecture of his family’s secrets.
Margaret had kept him from Evelyn.
She had kept Sarah from Rebecca.
She had hidden Thomas’s blue box.
And now she had tried to remove Sarah and Lily from the mansion before
Daniel returned.
Thomas then revealed why he resurfaced.
Someone had reactivated Charles’s old accounts.
The new transfers were being authorized through a family trust.
Daniel asked which one.
Thomas hesitated.
“Lily’s.”
The room went silent.
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The conspiracy was no longer history.
Someone was using his six-year-old daughter’s inheritance right now.
