Chapter 15 - Mia's MemoryMia remembered something she had buried deep inside herself.
A man.
A silver-haired man.
She had seen him the night Sarah disappeared.
He had stood at the end of the hallway.
Watching.
Mia had thought he was a ghost.
But now she remembered his voice.
He had spoken to Eleanor.
“Take Sarah below.”
Mia had been hiding behind a curtain.
She had never told anyone because Eleanor had threatened her.
But there was more.
Mia remembered the man touching a painting.
A painting of the Hawthorne family tree.
Behind it was a small metal key.
The police found the painting.
The key was still there.
It opened a safe hidden beneath the mansion.
Inside were the original documents proving the Hawthorne fortune had been manipulated for decades.
But there was also a letter.
Written by Richard's father.
It said:
If Jonathan ever returns, do not trust him.
Richard read the letter twice.
Then he looked at Sarah.
“My father knew.”
Sarah nodded.
“He was afraid of his own brother.”
Suddenly, every light in the mansion came back on.
And every television screen switched to the same image.
May you like
Jonathan Hawthorne.
Live.
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