Chapter 10 - Unlocking The Family Vault To Find Ewan Missing Belongings
After dinner, I walked down the stone stairs into the reinforced basement beneath the Harrington wine cellar. The heavy steel vault door required both my biometric scan and a physical brass key that only Ewan and I possessed.
Inside the damp stone alcove sat a metal trunk bearing Ewan’s initials painted in faded white lettering. I popped the rusty latches open, lifting the lid to reveal items the police had supposedly lost in the fire.
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There was his college ring, his signed commission papers, and a leather-bound diary with scorched edges. I flipped open the pages, finding detailed notes about Celeste’s father funneling cartel money through West Side front companies.
Ewan hadn't died because of faulty wiring; he had died because he discovered the audit trail leading straight to Celeste. She had murdered him to protect her family’s criminal enterprise before it could be exposed to federal prosecutors.
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