Chapter 2: The Hidden Files
Chapter 2: The Hidden Files
At the hospital, doctors treated Elena's concussion and closed the wound with twelve stitches.
While detectives interviewed witnesses, every member of the Hawthorne family repeated the same rehearsed story.
"It was an accident."
"The plate slipped."
"Nobody saw clearly."
But security footage from the dining room told a different story.
Richard was arrested before sunrise.
Later that night, Elena connected the mysterious flash drive to her laptop.
Instead of family photos, she found hundreds of encrypted documents.
Property transfers.
Forged signatures.
Shell companies.
Bank statements.
Each folder suggested that the Hawthorne family had quietly manipulated elderly homeowners into signing away valuable real estate before selling the properties for millions.
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Her condominium had never been the true target.
It had simply been the next acquisition.
