Chapter 71

The meeting was held in a small private room at the back of a legal support center Priya often used when sources needed some privacy. The room was simple, with plain walls, a round table, and a jug of water in the middle. There were no cameras or recording devices. Priya had made it clear that nothing would be recorded unless Margaret agreed to it.Bella arrived first while carlos stayed outside in the car, close enough to step in if she needed him, but far enough to give her some privacy.She sat at the table, leaving the glass of water untouched and didn't check her phone either. She'd taken the box of her mother's files home the night before and stayed up until two in the morning going through them. Even after that, she'd barely slept. Every time she closed her eyes, she saw her mother's handwriting and that small star beside the name Margaret.Margaret Osei came in at 10:03 a.m. She was in her mid-fifties, average height, and had the kind of posture you got from years of working o

Chapter 72

Bella had known since she was fourteen.Not in a way she could prove or put into a legal document. She just knew, the way children sometimes notice things their parents think they're hiding. Bella learned to read the silence in the house, to tell when her mother was simply tired and when she was being careful. She noticed the days when her mother moved differently, spoke less, or took a moment before laughing, as if she first had to make sure it was safe to relax.She told Carlos about it the next morning as they sat at the kitchen table, both of them with a cup of coffee in front of them. The archive box sat open on the floor beside Bella's chair."There was one winter when I was fifteen," she said. "She wore long sleeves almost every day for weeks. The house was warm, so I asked her about it once. She just told me she got cold easily."Bella looked down at the open archive box, but she wasn't really looking at the papers anymore. She was remembering."I didn't question her after tha

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