Chapter 7 - Evelyn's DaughterAt the police station, Evelyn told Sophie the truth.
Her daughter was named Claire.
Claire had once been married to Mark.
She had also owned a lake house.
Mark had wanted her to sell it.
Then Claire had supposedly become unstable.
Paranoid.
Difficult.
According to Mark.
Then she died.
Her car went over a bridge.
The case was ruled suicide.
But Evelyn never believed it.
For years, she followed fragments.
A jeweler who remembered modifying a strange clasp.
A missing investigator.
Financial records.
Insurance documents.
And eventually, Sophie Bennett.
The pattern was repeating.
New wife.
Property.
Pressure.
Isolation.
Then the necklace.
Evelyn had found Sophie on the bus because she needed to warn her without alerting Mark.
“I didn't know how else to reach you,” Evelyn whispered.
Sophie stared at the woman.
“Claire was your daughter?”
“Yes.”
“And you think Mark killed her?”
Evelyn's eyes filled with tears.
“I think my daughter never got the chance to tell the world what he did.”
Detective Voss opened a folder.
Inside were photographs.
Documents.
Messages.
Evidence.
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Then she said the words that made Sophie's blood run cold.
“Claire may not be dead.”
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