Chapter 8 - Ava's Tiny Locket Held the Key to a Criminal Empire—But Opening It Exposed a Secret Reed's Mother Had Buried for Twenty YearsThe locket opened with a hidden mechanism.
Inside was a tiny memory card.
Reed stared at it.
“That's impossible.”
“What?”
“It shouldn't still work.”
He inserted it into a secure computer.
Files appeared.
Names.
Dates.
Bank transfers.
Recordings.
Photographs.
Everything Victor had collected.
Then a video opened.
Victor appeared on screen.
He looked older.
Tired.
Afraid.
“If you're watching this, I'm dead.”
Reed stopped breathing.
Victor continued.
“The person responsible is someone I trusted.”
A woman appeared behind him.
Vivian.
Reed's mother.
I looked at Reed.
His face had gone completely blank.
Victor continued.
“She knows about the ledger.”
The video ended.
Reed didn't move.
For twenty seconds, nobody spoke.
Then he whispered:
“She killed him.”
I touched his arm.
He flinched.
Not away from me.
From the pain.
He looked at me.
“I spent twenty years thinking I failed my father.”
“You didn't.”
“I believed my mother.”
“You were sixteen.”
“I should have known.”
“No.”
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He looked at Ava.
“I won't make that mistake again.”
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