The tape crackled again.
“Eleanor had forged my signature.”
Arthur susurró:
“Good Lord.”
“She had transferred nearly two million dollars before we discovered it.”
Margaret’s voice weakened.
“Victor helped me freeze the account.”
So Julian had been wrong.
El villano en su mente en realidad había estado protegiendo a la familia.
Margaret continued.
“Then Eleanor threatened to expose secrets that would destroy Julian’s reputation and take the children from us.”
Emily susurró:
“¿Qué secretos?”
La cinta se quedó en silencio durante casi cinco segundos.
Then Margaret spoke.
“There weren’t any. But I was frightened enough to believe she could invent them.”
I closed my eyes.
Por supuesto.
Fear did not need truth.
It only needed possibility.
Margaret described the night of the accident.
Eleanor había arreglado que Margaret se encontrara con ella.
En cambio, Margaret descubrió documentos financieros que prueban años de fraude.
During her escape, the vehicle meant to collect her crashed.
