Chapter 6 - Vanessa's Real PlanVanessa disappeared the next morning.
Her room was empty.
Her passport was gone.
So was the CFO.
Marcus understood immediately.
“They're running.”
The security team traced a vehicle heading toward Connecticut.
Marcus followed.
I stayed behind with Lily.
But before noon, I received a message from an unknown number.
If you want your daughter safe, don't let Marcus find the blue file.
I stared at the screen.
Then Lily walked into the room.
She looked at my phone.
“Mommy?”
“Yes?”
“That's the bad lady.”
My heart stopped.
“How do you know?”
“She has the green car.”
Vanessa's car was black.
But three weeks earlier, Lily had seen a woman driving a green SUV near the mansion.
The same woman had given her candy.
I suddenly understood.
Vanessa wasn't working alone.
She had someone watching Lily.
And they had been watching us for weeks.
Marcus returned an hour later.
I showed him the message.
His expression became hard.
“What blue file?”
“I don't know.”
Then he remembered the greenhouse.
There had been a blue folder beneath the old bench.
He had overlooked it.
They returned together.
The folder was gone.
But Lily was holding something.
A small brass key.
Again.
She had found it underneath the bench.
Marcus took it.
“Where does this go?”
Lily pointed toward the wall.
There was a tiny keyhole hidden behind an old photograph.
Marcus unlocked it.
A secret compartment opened.
Inside was a blue file.
And a letter from his mother.
Marcus opened it.
May you like
The first sentence destroyed him.
Marcus, if you're reading this, your father lied to you about the Bennett family.
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