Chapter 19 - The Woman Who Refused to Be AfraidWeeks passed.
Eleanor hired independent investigators.
She reviewed the Vance family records.
She discovered something strange.
Several years before Richard married her, another member of the family had attempted to challenge the inheritance structure.
That person had disappeared from public life.
No one knew why.
The name appeared repeatedly in old documents.
Victoria Vance.
Richard's older sister.
Eleanor stared at the photograph attached to the file.
Victoria had the same grey eyes as Richard.
But there was something else.
A handwritten note beside her name.
Do not trust anyone inside the family.
Eleanor closed the folder.
She could have walked away.
She could have sold the mansion.
She could have taken Leo and started over somewhere no one knew her name.
But she had spent too long being controlled by other people's secrets.
This time, she wanted the truth.
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She picked up the phone.
“Find Victoria Vance.”
