Everyone assumed Margaret had been inside.
Victor convinced her to remain hidden temporarily while he gathered evidence.
But shortly afterward, Eleanor disappeared too.
“What happened to Margaret?” Daniel whispered.
La cinta contestó.
“I tried to come home three days later.”
Margaret’s voice broke.
“But someone intercepted me.”
Todos miramos a la grabadora.
“Ella no dice quién”, susurró Emily.
The tape continued.
“Pasé años intentando enviar mensajes. Algunos llegaron a Víctor. La mayoría no lo hizo”.
Luego la grabación cambió.
La voz de un hombre.
Julian.
Más viejo.
“This is Julian Vance. Recording added March 18, 2011.”
My heart nearly stopped.
“I found Margaret.”
Emily gasped.
Daniel gripped the shelf beside him.
Julian continuó.
“Ella está viva”.
Thirty years collapsed inside that room.
Margaret.
Alive?
The recording had been made fifteen years earlier.
Julian’s voice explained that Margaret had spent years under another identity.
She had escaped Eleanor’s control but had been terrified to return.
