Chapter 3 - Claire Sent More Than Letters
Claire had not sent one message.
She had sent fourteen.
Emails.
Letters.
Voicemails.
A certified package containing a pregnancy test and medical appointment
record.
Ethan received none of them.
Seven years earlier, he had been twenty-nine and preparing to take
control of Blackwood Capital.
Claire worked in the company’s charitable foundation.
They had dated privately for almost two years.
Then Ethan suddenly ended the relationship.
He believed Claire had accepted money from his mother, Victoria, and
left.
Claire believed Ethan had chosen his family fortune over her.
Both were wrong.
Richard had recovered archived server logs.
Someone with administrator access redirected Claire’s emails before they
reached Ethan.
The administrator account belonged to Victoria’s executive assistant.
But Richard had found something more damaging.
A handwritten instruction.
Block all correspondence from Claire Bennett. Forward copies to me.
Signed:
V. Blackwood.
Ethan stared at his mother.
May you like
Victoria whispered:
“I was protecting you.”
