Chapter 10 - Mrs Gable Finally Tells Her Version
Mrs. Gable agreed to a formal interview.
Her name was Eleanor Gable.
For decades, everyone called her Mrs. Gable as if the title were her
identity.
She admitted Harold tampered with Thomas’s car.
She said Antonio ordered Harold to frighten Thomas into silence.
Harold chose the method.
After Thomas died, Antonio panicked.
He paid Thomas’s family through the foundation and buried the internal
dispute.
Carlo threatened exposure.
Antonio confined him.
Eleanor helped.
Why continue after Antonio’s death?
Fear.
If Carlo emerged, Harold’s role would become known.
Harold had died believing his reputation intact.
Eleanor spent six years protecting a dead husband.
Then Nora Reed appeared on an employment application.
Eleanor thought Thomas’s daughter might possess evidence.
She hired Nora to watch her.
When Nora befriended Carlo, Eleanor panicked.
The threats escalated.
The false theft threat.
The dangerous work assignments.
The surveillance.
Eleanor cried while describing it.
Nora did not forgive her.
Lorenzo did not comfort her.
But he listened.
Eleanor’s motive was understandable in the narrow human sense.
Grief.
Fear.
Loyalty.
None of those made her conduct acceptable.
She had repeated Antonio’s logic.
Protect the family.
Hide the truth.
May you like
Control the vulnerable person who might expose it.
Lorenzo realized that was the real inheritance inside the Moretti house.
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