Chapter 6 - The Dead Father’s Mysterious Shadow
Later that night, while searching through a forgotten safe in her mother’s study, Emma found a locked wooden box.
Inside lay a collection of old polaroids, bank statements, and a typewritten letter dated twenty years ago.
The letter detailed the circumstances surrounding the tragic yacht explosion that supposedly claimed the life of her father, Richard Sterling.
Except there was a handwritten postscript scrawled by her mother in red ink: “The body was never recovered. He is hiding to protect us.”
Emma’s breath hitched in her throat as she stared at the faded ink, her hands trembling slightly against the aged paper.
If her father was still alive, why had he abandoned her to the care of boarding schools and distant relatives?
And more importantly, did Nathan know that Richard Sterling might someday return to reclaim his empire?
She picked up her phone, dialing a confidential investigator specializing in cold cases and missing high-society figures.
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“I need you to run a priority trace on an individual last seen in Zurich in twenty-ten,” Emma instructed with quiet urgency.
The shadows of her past were beginning to stretch across the present, revealing secrets far darker than a simple marital affair.
