The Woman Who Wasn’t Dead
Chapter 12 - The Woman Who Wasn’t Dead
Patricia Cole had not died twenty-four years earlier.
She had disappeared.
Vanessa had told everyone her mother died overseas.
In reality, Patricia had suffered a stroke and lived under another surname in a private care facility.
Vanessa had been paying her bills with foundation money.
Emily was stunned.
“My grandmother is alive?”
Vanessa finally broke.
She admitted she had hidden Patricia because Patricia knew too much.
Not only about the original theft.
About Richard’s father.
The missing fifty thousand dollars had not been taken solely by Patricia.
Richard’s father had ordered her to move it into a secret account to cover one of his own failing investments.
When the investment collapsed, he blamed Patricia.
Margaret discovered the truth but protected her husband.
Ruth had taken the blame for a crime created by two powerful people and buried by a third.
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Richard sat in silence.
For the first time, the Whitmore name itself seemed smaller than the people it had crushed.
