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Chapter 71: The Secret Mission
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THE FAKE HEIRESS and Her OBSESSIVE BROTHER Chapter 71: The Secret Mission
Vivian did not return to the city that night. She and Marcus found a small inn on the edge of town, and she spent the evening sitting by the window, thinking about everything Elizabeth had told her. The evidence existed. The records were real. Her mother had spent twenty years gathering proof of what Richard had done. But she had not told Vivian where any of it was. Vivian understood why. If Helena Voss was still out there, and if Helena knew the records existed, she would do anything to destroy them. But understanding the caution did not make the waiting easier. She barely slept. --- The next morning, she returned to Elizabeth's house. Her mother was in the garden, kneeling beside a bed of roses with a pair of pruning shears in her hand. She looked up when Vivian opened the gate, and something in her expression shifted. "You came back." "I told you I would." Elizabeth set down the shears and stood. She wiped her hands on her apron and walked toward Vivian. "I thought you would
THE FAKE HEIRESS and Her OBSESSIVE BROTHER Chapter 70: The Truth
Vivian woke before sunrise in the small house at the end of the lane. She had slept in the spare room, on a narrow bed beneath a window that looked out at the garden. The room was clean and quiet, and for the first time in weeks she had slept without dreaming. She rose and dressed and found Elizabeth in the kitchen, standing at the counter with a cup of tea in her hands. Her mother turned when Vivian entered, and something in her expression was different from the day before. It was heavier and more guarded. "You slept well?" "Yes." "Good." Elizabeth set down her cup. "There's something I need to tell you. Something I should have told you years ago." Vivian sat down at the table. "What is it?" --- Elizabeth was quiet for a long moment. "I have never told you the full story of why I gave you up. I told you that Richard threatened me and that I believed he would hurt you. But I never told you what happened the night I made the decision." She paused. "When you were five years old
THE FAKE HEIRESS and Her OBSESSIVE BROTHER Chapter 69: The Reunion
The town was smaller than Vivian expected. It sat on the western edge of the country, tucked between low hills and a river that ran slow and gray beneath an old stone bridge. There were two streets, a market, a church, and a scattering of houses that had been built decades ago and never touched since. The rain had stopped by the time they arrived, and the sky was pale and quiet. Vivian stood at the edge of the town and looked at the address Clara had given her. Clara had called the night before, after speaking with Elizabeth, and told her that Elizabeth had agreed to the meeting. She had given Vivian the address and told her to come alone, but Vivian had brought Marcus anyway, because she did not trust anything about this situation enough to walk into it by herself. "This is it." Marcus stepped out of the car and stood beside her. "Are you ready?" "No." "Then we can wait." "No." Vivian folded the paper and tucked it into her pocket. "I've waited long enough." --- The house was
THE FAKE HEIRESS and Her OBSESSIVE BROTHER Chapter 68: The Mother
Three days passed after the discovery of the accounts.Vivian spent them in the city, moving between David's office and the hotel. She studied the transfers into Elizabeth's account and traced the pattern of deposits and withdrawals, looking for anything that would tell her who was keeping her mother's name alive. She found nothing. The accounts were too carefully managed, and the intermediaries were too well chosen. Whoever was behind them knew exactly how to avoid being found.On the fourth morning, her phone rang. She did not recognize the number, and she almost did not answer, but something made her pick it up."Hello?""Vivian."The voice was quiet, female, older. It said her name the way a person says something they have been holding onto for years."Who is this?""My name is Elizabeth Blackwood." A pause. "I'm your mother."---Vivian sat down on the edge of the bed.Her hands were trembling, so she set the phone on the blanket and pressed it to her ear with both hands."How di
THE FAKE HEIRESS and Her OBSESSIVE BROTHER Chapter 67: The Ghost
The bank records arrived two days later.Okafor called Vivian early in the morning and asked her to come to the office. There was something in the accounts that did not make sense, and she wanted a second set of eyes on it before she brought it to David.Vivian arrived within the hour. Price was already there, and the two investigators had spread a series of statements across the conference table. Each statement was marked with the same account number."These are from one of the holding accounts we identified last week," Okafor said. "It was opened thirty years ago and registered under a company that was dissolved in 2004.""If the company was dissolved, why are there statements from last month?""That's what we're trying to figure out."---Price pointed to the most recent page."The account was dormant for years. No deposits, no withdrawals, nothing. Then six months ago, someone started moving money again. Small transfers at first, then larger ones, and then a series of withdrawals
THE FAKE HEIRESS and Her OBSESSIVE BROTHER Chapter 66: The Money
The financial records arrived at David's office on a Tuesday morning.Two investigators carried them in—a man named Price and a woman named Okafor—and stacked them on the conference table in neat, heavy piles. Vivian had been called in early, before the office filled with the usual noise, and she sat at the end of the table with a cup of coffee she had not touched."We've been through the accounts we seized from Damian's study," Okafor said. "But these are different. These came from the trust records, and they go back further than anything we've seen so far.""How far?" Vivian asked."Thirty years."---Price opened the first folder and turned it toward her."Richard Carrington didn't keep his money in one place. He kept it in dozens of places. Shell companies, holding accounts, properties registered under names that don't appear anywhere else in the network files." He paused. "We've identified forty-two separate businesses so far. Some of them are still active."Vivian leaned forward
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