Chapter 6 - Victoria Knew About the Reservation
The manager checked the booking record.
Richard had reserved the private family table for four.
Richard.
Claire.
Noah.
Ethan.
Victoria’s name was not included.
Yet she had called the restaurant that afternoon and added herself.
She told staff she was Richard’s wife.
She was not.
Richard and Victoria had divorced five years earlier.
The manager apologized.
Richard waved it away.
The lie mattered more than the seating.
Victoria knew Richard planned to reveal something.
She came to stop it.
Ethan remembered how aggressively she encouraged him to confront Claire.
“She’s manipulating Dad.”
“She wants money.”
“Don’t let her embarrass the family.”
Ethan had repeated his mother’s assumptions without realizing they were
planted.
Then Richard showed him another document.
A trust amendment.
Noah’s name appeared on it.
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Victoria had tried to challenge it three weeks earlier.
She already knew exactly who Noah was.
