Then came the decisive file, recorded several days later.
Sarah was pacing beside the patio doors while talking on the phone, unaware that the home surveillance system she had apparently forgotten about was capturing her words.
“Two more episodes should be enough,” Sarah was saying into the receiver.
She paused to listen.
“No, Julian.
Marcus still thinks the arrangement is meant to safeguard Lily’s inheritance.”
Marcus lifted his head.
Ryan reached over and paused the video.
For a long moment, neither man spoke.
There it was in Sarah’s own voice.
The name Julian.
The reference to an arrangement.
The confirmation that Marcus was being misled about something supposedly designed to protect Lily’s inheritance.
His wife had put something in his child’s drink, recorded what happened afterward, and was coordinating with another man as part of a larger plan.
Sarah believed, when that recording was made, that her husband suspected nothing.
