Northbridge Holdings.
We did not know our discoveries were related until Ethan spoke to us privately.
Clara, your father did not lose our future through carelessness. He tried to protect people. I asked him not to tell you because you were already carrying too much.
That was my mistake.
Silence can look like protection when it is really only another kind of fear.
Ethan believed someone inside his family’s companies was using charity programs to move money. Dr. Mara Ellis offered to help him collect proof. We trusted her.
Then Ethan learned Mara had copied your father’s report before delivering it.
He became afraid that you might be used to pressure us.
The night of his accident, he borrowed the health center car because he believed his own vehicle was being followed. He planned to meet Mara and recover the copied records. I was supposed to go with him, but
