Chapter 4 - What Was Inside the Safe
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Two hours before the baseball bat was raised, Lena had been standing inside Travis’s locked home office.
For six months, she had watched her vibrant father waste away from sudden organ failure, followed by a mysterious stroke. Travis had stepped in as the dutiful son-in-law, offering to manage Vance Logistics while Arthur was incapacitated. Everyone in high society praised Travis as a saint.
Lena had believed him. She had wept on his shoulder, cooked his meals, and thanked God for giving her such a dedicated husband.
Until this morning.
While organizing Travis’s dry cleaning, a slip of paper had fallen from his suit pocket. It was a receipt for a private safe deposit box registered under an offshore shell company. Beside it was a tiny digital keycard and a handwritten note with four letters: *D-I-G-O.*
Lena’s heart had stopped. *Digoxin.* The heart medication her father was never prescribed, but which the doctors had mysteriously found traces of in his bloodstream during his emergency admission.
Driven by a sickening instinct, Lena used Travis’s spare thumb-drive to bypass his office safe. Inside, she didn't just find company financial ledgers showing twenty million dollars embezzled over eighteen months.
She found two vials of liquid medication, medical-grade syringes, and a signed life insurance policy on Arthur Vance worth ten million dollars—payable exclusively to Travis Vance upon Arthur’s death.
And at the very bottom was a forged will, leaving Lena completely penniless and placing all remaining Vance family assets under Travis’s sole guardianship in the event of Arthur’s demise.
She had stood in that cold office, staring at the evidence, realizing with absolute horror that the man sleeping beside her every night was slowly, systematically murdering her father.
And then, she had heard the heavy front door click shut downstairs.
👉 How did Travis catch her before she could escape?
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