Chapter 7 - Nora Was Hired For A Reason
Employment records showed something unusual.
Nora had not been Mrs. Gable’s first choice.
She had been rejected initially.
Two days later, Mrs. Gable personally reversed the decision.
Why hire the daughter of a man connected to Carlo?
Mrs. Gable refused further interviews without counsel.
Investigators searched authorized estate records.
They found copies of Nora’s application in Mrs. Gable’s locked office.
Thomas Reed’s name was circled.
Beside it:
KEEP CLOSE.
Lorenzo felt cold.
Nora had believed she was lucky to get the job.
Instead, someone had selected her because of her father.
But why?
Carlo provided part of the answer.
Thomas had hidden records before his death.
Mrs. Gable apparently believed Nora might unknowingly possess them.
For five months she watched Nora.
Searched her locker.
Opened her mail.
Assigned her to the old wing where Carlo could be observed through her.
Nora was furious.
“She thought I knew where the ledger was.”
“Do you?”
“No.”
Nathan did not either.
Then he remembered their father’s storage box contained an old
elevator-service manual.
Thomas had never repaired elevators.
Nora’s grandfather had.
Inside the manual was a handwritten list of building addresses.
One address belonged to a Moretti-owned warehouse on South Canal Street.
Carlo heard the address and closed his eyes.
“That’s where Thomas hid the copy.”
Lorenzo ordered nothing removed.
He contacted counsel and independent investigators.
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If evidence existed, he wanted a documented chain of custody.
His family had hidden enough things already.
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