Chapter 9 - Discovering Elena’s Hidden Journal Inside The Safe House
The black SUV sped along the winding coastal highway of Maine, cutting through the heavy morning fog with piercing headlights.
Richard and his security team arrived at the secluded wooden cabin on the edge of a jagged ocean cliff.
The front door was unlocked, and the rooms were chillingly empty, suggesting the occupants had fled only hours earlier.
Richard walked into the small upstairs bedroom, noticing a leather-bound journal resting on the rustic wooden nightstand.
He opened the cover, recognizing Elena’s familiar handwriting filling the crisp white pages with tear-stained ink.
“If my father ever finds this, I hope he understands why I had to run away from the gilded cage,” the first entry read.
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Page after page detailed the emotional abuse, surveillance, and suffocating expectations that had driven her to fake her own death.
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