Chapter 6 - The Vase Hid Laura’s Evidence
Inside the packet was a flash drive.
A handwritten note was folded around it.
Richard recognized Laura’s handwriting.
If you found this, I was right to be afraid.
Richard closed his eyes.
Ethan stood beside him.
“Daddy?”
Richard forced himself to breathe.
“Go with Denise.”
Ethan shook his head.
“No.”
Richard wanted to protect him from everything.
Then he remembered how much damage secrecy had already caused.
“You can stay nearby,” he said. “But Denise is going to sit with you.”
He opened the flash drive.
Laura had created folders.
Medical.
Bank.
Stephen.
Rebecca.
The medical folder contained lab reports.
Laura’s blood had shown abnormal levels of a heart medication she had
never been prescribed.
The report was preliminary.
The final hospital report did not include it.
Richard opened the Rebecca folder.
Photographs.
Messages.
Bank transfers.
Laura had discovered Rebecca was receiving money from someone named
Cobalt Consulting.
Richard searched the company.
It had dissolved three years earlier.
The registered owner was Stephen Cole’s brother.
Denise whispered, “Why would he pay Rebecca?”
Richard opened another document.
Laura had written:
Rebecca keeps asking about my life insurance.
Richard’s stomach dropped.
Laura’s policy had paid $4 million.
He had been the beneficiary.
Not Rebecca.
So why would she care?
Then Richard found a copy of the trust.
If Richard died within five years of Laura, Ethan inherited through a
trust.
The backup trustee was Laura’s closest surviving relative.
Rebecca.
Richard looked toward the hallway.
May you like
Rebecca had not only known about Laura’s insurance.
She had known what happened if Richard died next.
