Chapter 7 - What Natalie DiscoveredDetectives reconstructed the past.
Natalie had worked as a junior accountant for the firm administering the Mitchell estate.
That was how she discovered irregularities.
Money was disappearing.
She began investigating.
Then she discovered Richard Vale was responsible.
She planned to tell Ryan.
But Richard found out.
According to files on Natalie's recovered phone, Richard threatened her.
He knew she was pregnant.
He told her that if she went to Ryan, both she and her unborn child would disappear.
Terrified, Natalie fled.
She raised Lily secretly.
But she never stopped investigating.
Years later, Richard died.
Natalie believed the danger was over.
She was wrong.
Because Caroline had inherited more than her father's money.
She had inherited his secrets.
And Natalie had finally gathered enough evidence to expose everything.
Three weeks earlier, she returned to town.
She intended to tell Ryan the truth.
Instead, Caroline found her first.
Ryan stared at Detective Bennett.
“And Lily?”
“Caroline must have taken her too.”
“But why keep her alive?”
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Mara looked toward the hospital room where Lily slept.
“That,” she said, “is what worries me.”
