Chapter 10 - Emma Recorded Jonathan’s Confession
The flash drive contained audio.
Emma had contacted Jonathan before Naomi.
She told him she remembered fragments.
The hospital.
A man calling himself Uncle Jon.
A long car ride.
Rebecca crying.
Jonathan agreed to meet her.
Emma secretly recorded the conversation.
His voice was unmistakable.
He did not confess to causing the crash.
He explicitly denied having anything to do with Claire’s death.
But he admitted moving Emma after the hospital.
He claimed Cameron was emotionally destroyed and would lose the company
if forced to raise an injured child.
He said he was “protecting the family.”
Emma asked:
“Why did you tell him I died?”
Jonathan answered:
“Because once he believed it, there was no going back.”
Then Emma asked about the trust.
Silence.
Jonathan finally said:
“You don’t understand what your existence does to everything.”
Cameron stopped the recording.
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For ten years, he had mourned a child whose existence had been
inconvenient to his own brother.
