Chapter 6 - Nora’s Pregnancy Reveals Another Hidden Connection
At the hospital, Nora learned the baby was stable.
The spotting required monitoring and reduced physical strain.
Her physician provided clear work restrictions.
Lorenzo’s HR director discovered Mrs. Gable had never forwarded Nora’s
earlier accommodation request.
That became part of the employment investigation.
Then Nora received an unexpected visitor.
Nathan Reed.
Her younger brother.
Lorenzo recognized the surname.
“Reed?”
Nora looked confused.
Nathan explained their late father was Thomas Reed.
Thomas had worked as a compliance analyst for the Moretti Foundation.
Lorenzo remembered the name.
Thomas Reed died in a car crash twelve years earlier.
A year before Carlo supposedly died.
Nora had never known exactly what her father did.
After his death, her family received a modest settlement from the
foundation.
Nathan recently found an old storage box.
Inside was a photograph.
Thomas Reed standing beside Carlo Vescari.
On the back, in Thomas’s handwriting:
IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO ME, CARLO HAS THE SECOND LEDGER.
Nora stared at the photograph.
“I didn’t know.”
Neither did Lorenzo.
Carlo did.
When shown the photograph, he began crying.
“Thomas tried to help me.”
The hidden man in Room 4B and the pregnant maid assigned to care near
him were connected by a secret older than either Nora or Lorenzo
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understood.
And Mrs. Gable had known Nora’s surname from the day she applied.
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