Chapter 9 - Clara Learns James Called Victor
Phone records showed James called Victor seventeen minutes before his
crash.
The call lasted four minutes.
Victor had never mentioned it.
When confronted, he claimed James accused him of theft and threatened to
expose him.
“Did you meet him?”
“No.”
Traffic-camera footage contradicted that.
Victor’s vehicle had been near the road where James crashed.
Again, proximity was not murder.
But the lies accumulated.
Then investigators recovered an old voicemail from James’s cloud
account.
Victor’s voice:
You don’t understand what Adrian will do if this gets out.
James answered:
That’s exactly why it has to come from me.
The recording ended.
Adrian listened without moving.
Then he looked at me.
“My brother was trying to protect me from myself.”
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I answered quietly:
“Maybe he was trying to give you a chance to choose differently.”
