Chapter 4 - The Crack in the Foundation
Margaret violently threw her expensive crystal wine glass entirely across the massive, luxurious dining room, heavily shattering it against the stone wall.
She violently screamed at her terrified domestic staff, aggressively demanding to know exactly who had placed the cheap architect's drafting pen on her desk.
No one had any absolute idea how the small, personal item belonging to the officially deceased girl had magically bypassed the strict security detail.
Alex stood quietly in the dark doorway, his sharp, intelligent eyes meticulously observing his mother's highly erratic, deeply unstable, and paranoid behavior.
His private investigator, a highly skilled former federal agent named Thomas, had completely failed to find any physical evidence of a fatal fall.
However, Thomas had successfully uncovered massive, highly illegal withdrawals entirely matching the exact five million dollar bribe Margaret had bragged about.
Alex felt his entire heart completely shatter into a million jagged pieces as the horrifying, undeniable reality finally began to heavily set in.
The incredibly warm, deeply loving mother who had gently raised him was actually a totally ruthless, incredibly cold-blooded, and highly manipulative monster.
He secretly copied all of the highly encrypted financial hard drives directly from Margaret's private safe while she was aggressively sleeping heavily on sleeping pills.
Alex desperately needed undeniable, concrete proof of the attempted murder before he completely completely destroyed his own biological mother's entire life.
He quietly visited the towering building where Emma had tragically disappeared, carefully standing on the exact same windy roof for hours in the freezing cold.
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He finally noticed the heavy, industrial maintenance platform situated just fifteen feet below the dangerous edge, completely hidden from a casual, quick glance.
Alex realized with a sudden, massive burst of incredible hope that his beautiful, incredibly smart fiancée might actually still be alive somewhere out there.
