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Aunt Beatrice was charged separately for interfering with the investigation and falsifying parts of the funeral documentation.
And then investigators turned their attention to Warren Vance.
The man who had approved my strange assignment.
The man whose office had intercepted Clara’s attempt to contact me.
Company records showed that Vance had communicated with Derek before approving my trip.
He denied knowing anything about Clara’s death.
But the questions were no longer going away.
And for the first time since I walked into that house and saw the mourning ribbon on my gate, I realized something:
The people who tried to bury the truth had forgotten one thing.
They had forgotten about Lily.
And they had forgotten about my father.
One was too young to understand why her words mattered.
The other could barely speak.
But together, they had saved the one thing everyone else wanted hidden.
And what happened after the arrests would change the way I looked at my family forever.
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