Chapter 17 - THE PHOTOGRAPH ADRIAN COULDN’T EXPLAINClara remembered fragments: Charles arguing with Victoria, Marcus signing papers, and Dr. Whitaker preparing medication never intended for Eleanor.
Charles had discovered the scheme and planned to remove the directors involved. He promised Clara protection if she testified.
The next morning, Charles was declared dead from a sudden heart attack. Clara disappeared before she could speak.
Then she asked for Eleanor’s cane.
Clara pressed a nearly invisible catch beneath its handle. A second compartment opened—one Adrian had never known existed.
Inside was a tiny film strip containing photographs taken by Charles’s investigator.
The images showed Victoria meeting the doctor, directors exchanging documents, and Marcus entering the private clinic.
The final photograph silenced everyone.
It showed Adrian’s car outside the clinic less than an hour before Charles died.
Adrian had always claimed he was in Boston that night.
Isabella faced the man who had defended her.
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“Why were you there?”
For the first time, Adrian had no answer.
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