Penelope rubbed her stomach.
“What if the baby isn’t enough to secure my future?”
Garrett turned to her.
“You’ll have the life you wanted. Just be patient.”
I felt something inside me go cold.
Penelope had not simply betrayed me. She had helped him plan my death while carrying his child.
But the next line changed everything.
Hale said, “And the old ledger?”
Garrett’s expression sharpened.
“Still missing.”
“Richard believed Tobias knew where it was.”
Garrett laughed.
“Tobias can’t even stand up.”
I looked at my brother.
He was sitting beside me, his hands folded tightly in his lap.
Garrett had underestimated him for fifteen years.
Now he had underestimated us both.
That afternoon, Agent Brooks helped me contact the shipyard’s independent trustees. We did not tell them I was alive. Instead, we informed them that suspicious documents had surfaced and requested an emergency review of all transfers made under Garrett’s authority.
