Chapter 9 - The Parker FamilyRebecca Parker was Michael's aunt.
She was also Melissa's aunt.
The connection was almost impossible to believe.
Melissa's mother had been a Parker.
Michael's mother had been a Parker.
Three sisters.
Three branches of one family.
And somehow, all of them were connected to my father.
Rebecca had contacted Melissa nearly a year earlier.
She wanted the truth about Samuel Bennett exposed.
She believed George Carter had stolen everything from her family.
But Rebecca insisted she never ordered Melissa to drug Eleanor.
She never ordered the forged signatures.
She never ordered the financial theft.
Melissa had taken Rebecca's information and turned it into an opportunity.
That distinction mattered.
But it didn't erase the damage.
Then I learned something else.
Mom's fall had happened shortly after Melissa visited her apartment.
Water had been found on the kitchen floor.
Mom had fractured her wrist.
Melissa had used that incident to convince me my mother could no longer live alone.
If Melissa had engineered the fall, then moving Mom into our house hadn't been an act of kindness.
It had been the first move.
I returned home with police.
The house was strangely quiet.
Then I found an old note beneath Mom's dresser.
Check the camera in George's workshop.
I did.
The footage revealed Melissa entering the workshop months earlier.
Then Kevin.
Then Eric.
And finally, Rebecca Parker.
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The entire family history had been hiding in my father's workshop.
And now it was threatening to destroy everything he built.
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