Chapter 5 - The Woman Who Knew Too Much
Adrian's mother disappeared the next morning.
Security cameras showed her leaving voluntarily.
But she never arrived anywhere.
We found her car abandoned near the harbor.
Inside was one clue.
A red scarf.
And a note.
Megan knows where the money is.
I stared at the note.
“I don't.”
Adrian shook his head.
“Yes, you do.”
“What?”
“You don't know that you know.”
That sounded insane.
Then I remembered something.
The tips.
Every week, Frank made me sign a sheet.
One number appeared repeatedly.
4-17-23.
I had assumed it was an accounting code.
Adrian stared at it.
“That's a date.”
“What happened then?”
“April 17, 2023.”
I searched the restaurant records.
That was the day Frank opened a new private account.
Adrian found the bank.
The account contained $17 million.
Money belonging to his father's estate.
Frank had stolen it.
But why had he hidden the information in my paperwork?
Because I was the one employee who actually read it.
Suddenly, we heard a knock.
A police officer entered.
He looked at Adrian.
“Your mother has been found.”
My heart jumped.
“Where?”
“An abandoned warehouse.”
We rushed there.
She was alive.
Shaken.
But alive.
She looked at me.
“You found it.”
“What?”
“The account.”
I nodded.
She smiled.
“Then Frank is finished.”
But she was wrong.
Frank wasn't finished.
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He had one final move.
He kidnapped Ava.
