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CHAPTER 14: The Leak
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2026-09-10 17:37:38
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Signed, Sealed, Sinful CHAPTER 39 Xander's POV — "That Voice"
Nobody moved for nearly a minute.Samuel sat at the table with both hands flat and his eyes fixed on Lara, and Lara sat across from him and let him take the time he needed, and Evelyn stood near the counter with her hands still folded and her chin up.I stayed in the chair closest to the door because I was not family and this was not my room to fill.Samuel said: "Say it again.""You are Ruth and Daniel Okafor's son," Lara said. Her voice was even and warm and didn't rush. "Daniel died in the Ashby Street fire. Ruth died three weeks after it in the hospital. You were three years old.""And Gran took me in," Samuel said."Yes," Evelyn said, from near the counter. "Your mother asked me to, from her hospital bed. She wrote it in a note." She looked at her hands. "I should have told you sooner, Samuel. I know that. But I was scared and I didn't know how, and then too much time passed, and...""You changed my name," Samuel said. He wasn't angry yet. He was in the space before anger, where
Signed, Sealed, Sinful CHAPTER 38 Lara's POV — "Samuel"
"Hey," Samuel said. He sounded relaxed. He always sounded relaxed at one in the afternoon. "What's going on?""I need to see you," I said. "Today.""Today?" His voice shifted slightly. "Are you okay?""I'm fine," I said. "But I found something, and it involves you, and I can't tell you over the phone.""Lara." Now his voice was tighter. "Is it something bad?"I looked at the folder on my desk, at the corner of the hospital note visible through the cover, two sentences Ruth had written from her hospital bed before she died."It's something true," I said. "That's different from bad."He was quiet for a moment. "Can it wait until tonight?""There's a reason it can't," I said. "Someone else found out this information before I could come to you, and there's a small chance they might try to use it publicly. I want you to hear everything from me first.""Someone else?" Samuel's voice went flat. "What kind of someone else?""I'll explain when I see you," I said. "Can you be at Gran's apartmen
Signed, Sealed, Sinful CHAPTER 37 : Xander's POV — "What She Took"
I sent Lara back to her desk and told her I'd be five minutes.It was closer to twenty.Benjamin was in my office inside three minutes, laptop open, security feed up on the screen. The footage from the twenty-third floor showed a woman in a dark coat moving through the space with her head slightly down, but the angle was clear enough at one point, the jawline, the hair, the way she walked.Casandra."How did she get a visitor badge?" I asked Benjamin."She used the account of Kellner Interiors," Benjamin said. "A supplier we've used for two projects. She must have had someone on the inside create the booking. The front desk didn't look twice because the name matched a legitimate vendor account.""She was up here for eleven minutes," I said, watching the footage."Yes. And she didn't just post the comment." Benjamin clicked through to another screen. "She accessed the company file server using Tonia's credentials. She was in the archived records for nine of those eleven minutes.""What
Signed, Sealed, Sinful CHAPTER 36 : Lara's POV — "The Article"
Mirabel was the one who showed me.She came to my desk at ten forty-five with her phone face-up, set it in front of me without saying anything, and took two steps back.The article had a photo of me at the charity gala standing near Albert Crawford, taken from an angle that made us look like we were having a warm, friendly conversation. The headline called me a "calculated social climber" and the first paragraph described my marriage to Xander as a "known arrangement" designed to redirect Williams Group resources toward my personal benefit.Tonia's statement was quoted in full.I read it once, all the way through, and then I set the phone down and turned back to my screen."Lara," Mirabel said softly."I'm fine," I said."The comments section has your Brooklyn address in it."That made me stop.I picked up Mirabel's phone again and scrolled to the comments. Six lines down, someone had typed out my full apartment address and asked, in a tone that didn't feel like curiosity, whether any
Signed, Sealed, Sinful CHAPTER 35 : Xander's POV — "Two Sisters"
I saw Lara end the call at ten past ten.She sat at her desk for a full minute without moving, both hands flat on the surface in front of her, and I watched through the glass because I couldn't do anything else.Then she stood, picked up her notebook, and knocked on my office door."Come in," I said.She opened the door, closed it behind her, and sat in the chair across from my desk. She put her notebook down and looked at me, and her face was very calm, the kind of calm that comes after something large has already happened and the shock hasn't fully converted into feeling yet."She knew," Lara said."What did Evelyn tell you?" I asked.She went through it in order, clearly and without extra words, the way she always organized information, her mother's sister Ruth, Daniel Okafor, the fire, the child, the papers Evelyn signed, the monthly payments, and then the name at the end.When she said my father's name, I didn't flinch, because I'd already read it in the folder. But watching her
Signed, Sealed, Sinful CHAPTER 34: Lara's POV — "What Gran Said"
Evelyn picked up on the third ring, and her voice had that morning texture to it, a little slow, a little careful, the way it got when the weather was cold and her chest was tight."Lara. It's early for a call.""I know, Gran. I'm sorry." I kept my voice low and turned my chair away from the glass wall. "I need to ask you something.""Go ahead.""I've been working through a list of families connected to the Ashby Street building fire," I said. "Four families. I've spoken to three of them this morning.""Lord." Evelyn's voice went soft. "How did that go?""Hard but okay," I said. "But Gran, the fourth name on the list is Okafor. I left a voicemail and they haven't called back. The name is bothering me." I looked at the notebook. "Okafor. Do you know that name?"The line went quiet.Not the quiet of someone thinking. The quiet of someone who has been waiting for a question and is now deciding how much truth to put into the answer."Gran," I said."Yes," Evelyn said. Her voice was differ
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