“What did she say?”
“She said your marriage was falling apart. She said Robert had hidden money and that you were going to disappear with it.”
“My storage unit.”
Melissa nodded.
“She asked me whether Robert had
accounts overseas.”
“And?”
“I told her I didn’t know.”
“But she sent you money.”
“She created Northstar using my old identity records. I didn’t find out until later.”
“Why didn’t you report her?”
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“She threatened me.”
“With what?”
Melissa looked at me.
“She said she would expose where I lived.”
I went cold.
There it was.
The ugliest thing yet.
Claire had not merely cheated.
Not merely stolen.
Not merely forged signatures.
She had threatened her own sister’s life to protect the scheme.
Melissa pushed the envelope toward me.
