Chapter 10 - The Missing PageThat night, I returned to the ledger.
Page after page contained financial records and names.
But something was wrong.
The numbering jumped from Page 47 to Page 49.
Page 48 was missing.
I searched the safe again.
Nothing.
Then I remembered the golden fountain pen.
I opened it.
A tiny roll of paper fell from inside.
On it was one sentence.
THE TRUTH IS WHERE THE DEAD WERE BURIED.
My mother's grave.
I drove there alone.
Rain hammered the windshield.
The cemetery was nearly empty.
I stood before Beatrice Vale's tombstone.
Then I noticed something.
The date of her death was wrong.
One day.
Just one.
But my mother had always been obsessive about dates.
I checked the official death certificate.
Then the funeral records.
The discrepancy wasn't an accident.
Someone had altered the timeline.
I felt a chill.
My mother might have discovered something before she died.
Something someone had wanted buried.
I looked around the cemetery.
A black SUV sat beyond the trees.
May you like
Its headlights were off.
Someone was watching me.
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