Chapter 8 - The Recorder Belonged To Dad
Everyone wanted to know how I had obtained the recording.
I had not secretly bugged Marcus.
Father had.
Months before his death, Theodore became convinced important meetings were being summarized inaccurately.
He began carrying a small digital recorder.
Sometimes he forgot to turn it off.
After his death, his office electronics went into storage.
A former executive assistant named Claire Benton cataloged them.
She found one recorder inside Father’s desk.
One audio file was dated after he entered hospice.
Father was not speaking in it.
Marcus was.
He and Harrison had used Theodore’s study for a private meeting.
The recorder sat inside a closed drawer, still running.
Claire called me because the file included my name.
The first section contained the sentence I played at dinner.
There were six more recordings.
Marcus knew it.
That was why he stopped fighting when he saw my phone.
May you like
He had no idea how much I had heard.
Neither did I.
