Chapter 3 — The Investigation
Three days later...
The Bellamy mansion became an active crime scene.
Financial investigators.
Police detectives.
Forensic accountants.
Every room contained another secret.
Hidden safes.
Altered ledgers.
Destroyed invoices.
Then investigators discovered something unexpected.
Elise had been helping her mother.
Emails revealed years of coordinated fraud.
Medical records showed fertility medications Vivian secretly placed in Claire's food during the first years of marriage, hoping to delay pregnancy while manipulating inheritance timelines.
Daniel stared at the reports in disbelief.
"My own mother..."
The lead detective closed the file.
"Sometimes greed doesn't begin with money."
"It begins with believing you're entitled to someone else's future."
That afternoon, police arrested both Vivian and Elise.
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Neither resisted.
The evidence spoke louder than either of them ever could.
