Chapter 9 - Rachel’s Second Copy Still Exists
The video contained a clue.
Rachel said the second copy was somewhere Claire did not know about.
Evelyn remembered Rachel once giving Noah a wooden music box.
After Rachel died, it remained in Noah’s room.
Daniel opened it.
Nothing.
Noah turned it over.
“Mom said never throw away the bottom.”
Daniel examined the felt lining.
Beneath it was a memory card.
The second archive.
It contained more than financial records.
Rachel had saved emails between Claire and Marcus.
One message read:
Daniel trusts you. Keep it that way.
Another:
Rachel is asking too many questions.
Then a message from Claire:
If she tells him before the audit, we’re finished.
Nothing explicitly discussed harming Rachel.
Daniel felt both relief and anger.
He would not invent a murder because betrayal already existed.
The evidence showed fraud and concealment.
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That was enough to destroy the wedding without turning tragedy into
speculation.
