Chapter 10 - The Letter That Shouldn't Exist
The answer was simple.
The letter was fake.
Forensic examination showed it had been printed recently.
Someone wanted us to believe Howard had written it.
The question was why.
Police traced the printer.
David Mercer's office.
David's entire story began collapsing.
He wasn't merely Linda's obedient attorney.
He had manipulated her too.
He knew about the embryo.
He knew about Howard.
He knew Linda's deepest fear was losing Ethan.
And he used that fear.
David had been stealing from Linda's accounts for years.
More than $430,000 was missing.
Whenever Linda became suspicious, David redirected her attention toward me.
Claire is manipulating Ethan.
Claire wants your money.
Claire is hiding something.
Linda had already disliked me.
David fed that resentment until it became paranoia.
None of it excused her attack.
But now we understood how someone had deliberately poured gasoline onto a fire that had been burning for years.
Then investigators discovered David's final plan.
He had arranged to sell confidential reproductive records to a private data broker.
The old Whitmore embryo was valuable only because its existence helped him hide unauthorized transfers and billing.
Linda wasn't the mastermind.
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She was both perpetrator and pawn.
And David had disappeared.
