Chapter 5 - The Secret in the Bible Cover
Nancy heard the faint sound of tires crunching on the gravel driveway outside. Dale was coming.
Panic surged through her veins. She grabbed her smartphone from the floor, shoved the heavy manila envelope under her arm, and sprinted up the basement stairs.
She slipped out the back kitchen door just as Dale’s luxury SUV pulled into the front yard.
Nancy ducked behind the tall overgrown bushes at the edge of the property, keeping low until she reached her old sedan parked down the dirt road. She started the engine and drove away before Dale even stepped out of his vehicle.
Late that night, safely inside her own apartment, Nancy sat at her small kitchen table under the warm yellow light of her overhead lamp.
Her hands were still trembling as she examined the contents of the water-stained envelope.
There were fifty separate Treasury bonds, each issued in her name, Nancy Lee Harper, by her late grandfather over a period of twenty years. The face value alone exceeded five hundred thousand dollars, not including thirty years of accumulated compound interest.
Beside the bonds lay a small ledger detailing monthly deposits made by her grandfather into a specialized trust account.
Nancy took a deep breath, her jaw tightening with quiet, unyielding determination. She pulled out an old, zippered leather Bible cover—a gift from her grandfather on her sixteenth birthday—and carefully slid the stack of savings bonds and the yellow sticky note inside, zipping it shut.
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"Grandpa left these for me, not them," she whispered into the quiet night. "And they are not going to steal from us anymore."
👉 What did the bank manager discover when Nancy brought the bonds to First Farmers Bank the next morning?
