Chapter 7 - Vanessa Knew About Bright Steps
Vanessa became relevant again.
Not innocent.
Relevant.
She had worked briefly as a fundraising coordinator for Bright Steps four years earlier.
She had never told me.
When Ortiz questioned her, Vanessa admitted it.
She said the job lasted six months and ended badly.
Why hide it?
Because after meeting me, she learned Claire had worked there.
She worried I would think she had targeted me.
“Did you?”
“No.”
Evidence eventually supported that.
Vanessa and I met through friends.
No messages connected her to HavenTrack before our relationship.
But she recognized Clover.
She recognized the rabbit as a Bright Steps therapy item.
She said nothing.
That silence mattered.
So did what she did to Emma.
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The camera mystery did not erase the laundry room.
Two wrong things could exist at once.
