This one was different.
It was from a number he did not recognize.
Attached was a photograph.
His mother standing in their apartment hallway.
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Holding the blue quilt.
Taken three weeks earlier.
The day Rachel fell.
Daniel opened the image.
Then he saw something in the background.
Something Margaret had missed.
A small object on the kitchen counter.
A recording device.
His heart stopped.
Because suddenly he understood.
Rachel had not been the only one hiding something.
And his mother had no idea that her own words from that night had been recorded.
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TO BE CONTINUED…
What did Margaret say before Rachel’s fall? And why was she so desperate to keep Daniel from hearing the recording? Part 3 reveals the evidence that could destroy everything she built.