Chapter 3 - I Installed Cameras Everywhere—and What They Recorded Was Worse Than Anything My Mother Told MeI didn't tell Mark about the cameras.
I let him believe the mansion had no surveillance.
The next morning, I hired a private investigator.
His name was Thomas Reed.
He reviewed my mother's statements.
Then he reviewed the financial records.
Then he found something unexpected.
Eleanor had been transferring money from my mother's account into another account.
That account belonged to Mark.
I stared at the records.
“Why?”
Thomas looked at me.
“Because they're preparing for something.”
“What?”
He handed me a document.
A property transfer agreement.
They had planned to force my mother to sign over her farmland.
The same farmland she had sold years ago to pay for my education.
My entire childhood had been built on that sacrifice.
And now they wanted to take the little she had left.
I asked Thomas to investigate further.
He found text messages.
Eleanor:
She'll sign eventually.
Mark:
What if Sarah finds out?
Eleanor:
She won't. She's too busy chasing money.
I almost laughed.
They had no idea.
I had never cared about money.
I cared about freedom.
And now I was going to use every dollar I had to protect my mother.
That evening, my mother asked me:
“What will happen to Mark?”
“I don't know.”
“Will you send him to prison?”
“If the evidence proves he committed a crime.”
She nodded.
Then she whispered:
“I don't want revenge.”
I looked at her.
“What do you want?”
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“I want to sleep without being afraid.”
That sentence became my mission.
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