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Chapter 20: The Secret Inside the Recording

Penulis: Connie Clarke
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-09-22 04:12:39

The gunshot shattered the night.

For one terrible second, nobody moved.

Then Adrian grabbed me and pulled me against his chest, turning his body between mine and the darkness.

“Get down!”

I barely had time to obey before another shot struck the wooden railing beside us.

Clara screamed.

Reed was already moving.

He pushed Clara behind the car and disappeared toward the trees, while Adrian dragged me toward the old house.

“Stay behind me.”

“Adrian—”

“Evelyn, please.”

The word stopped me.

He almost
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  • I Married My Mother's Secret Lover    Chapter 61: The Instruction Without a Name

    I read the anonymous message again before handing my phone to Reed.The envelope was not meant to be transferred with the records. Daniel was told to keep it separate. Ask him who gave him that instruction.Daniel had already admitted that someone approached him near reception after his meeting with the project governance representative. The person had no visible identification and told him that additional documents concerning the identity references should not be included in the transfer inventory until the controller’s office decided how to handle them.It was an important detail, but Daniel couldn't remember whether he had been carrying an envelope at the time or whether the instruction referred to something he received later."Can you remember anything else about this person?" Reed asked.Daniel shook his head. "Not much. I remember the voice, but not the face. They spoke quietly and seemed familiar with the procedure. I assumed they worked for the secretariat.""Did they know you

  • I Married My Mother's Secret Lover    Chapter 60: The Envelope Nobody Recorded

    Daniel kept staring at the final page of the notebook as if the words might rearrange themselves into something less damaging if he looked at them long enough. Reed had enlarged the photograph, adjusted the contrast, and compared the handwriting with several earlier entries, but the sentence remained unmistakable. Someone had left an envelope after the meeting, and Daniel had recorded that it was not included in the transfer inventory. The note was brief, almost careless, yet it raised a question none of us could ignore: if Daniel had received something important enough to record, why had he never mentioned it, and where was it now?“I need a moment,” Daniel said.Amelia turned away from the window. “You have had years.”“I understand why you're angry, but I genuinely don't remember what happened to that envelope.”“Then start with what you do remember. Did the man leave it with you, or did you find it after he had gone?”Daniel rubbed his forehead, looking exhausted. “I remember the

  • I Married My Mother's Secret Lover    Chapter 59: The Meeting Before the Transfer

    Daniel arrived at Adrian’s office at nine the following morning with the original letter locked inside a document case and the small notebook tucked beneath his arm. He came alone, refusing Reed’s offer to collect the materials from his house, and looked as though he had spent the night arguing with himself about whether bringing them to us was the right decision. Amelia stood when he entered, but she did not cross the room to greet him, and Daniel seemed to understand that whatever relationship they had shared before the truth began surfacing could not simply be resumed because he had finally decided to cooperate. He placed the case on the table between us and kept his hand resting on its handle for several seconds before letting go.“I haven't opened the notebook since I found it,” he said. “The letter was inside a separate folder, and the folder was inside the locked cabinet. I thought I'd kept it because I was supposed to retain proof of the instructions I received, but I can't ho

  • I Married My Mother's Secret Lover    Chapter 58: The Letter He Kept Daniel's letter

    Daniel's letter arrived at 8:16 that evening, but I knew something was wrong before Reed finished opening the files. There were three photographs of the same document, each taken from a slightly different angle, followed by a scanned copy Daniel had managed to retrieve from an old encrypted folder. The paper was yellowed around the edges, and a faint crease ran through the middle, suggesting it had been folded and unfolded several times before being placed in storage. Daniel had written a short message explaining that he had kept the original in a locked cabinet at home, separate from the administrative files he had transferred to the project controller's office. He had not touched it in years, he said, and had only remembered its location after Amelia questioned him. I read his message twice, then looked at Adrian. "He says he kept it because he thought someone might eventually ask why the correspondence had disappeared." "That is possible," Adrian replied. "But we should not confuse

  • I Married My Mother's Secret Lover    Chapter 57: The Request That Disappeared

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