Chapter 7 - The Dead Man's Voice
The old chapel was beneath Lorenzo's family estate.
They reached it just before dawn.
Isabella carried Arthur's phone.
Lorenzo carried a weapon.
Camila refused to stay behind.
The door was unlocked.
Inside, they found a wooden table covered with photographs.
Lorenzo's family.
Camila's family.
Isabella.
Even Daniel, the missing security chief.
Lorenzo picked up Isabella's photograph.
Taken three months earlier.
The day before she applied for the maid position.
He looked at her.
“You knew you were being watched.”
“Yes.”
“Then why stay?”
“Because someone needed to know what was happening.”
Camila found another photograph.
It showed Arthur meeting a man in a gray coat.
The man's face was hidden.
But the date was visible.
Two days after Lorenzo's uncle supposedly died.
Lorenzo stared.
“That isn't possible.”
Isabella studied the image.
“Maybe the man isn't your uncle.”
“What if everyone was wrong?”
Lorenzo looked at her.
“You think my uncle is alive?”
“No.”
She pointed to the shoes.
“The man in this picture is wearing the same shoes Arthur wore tonight.”
Lorenzo's eyes narrowed.
The photograph had been staged.
Someone wanted them to believe a dead relative was secretly controlling the operation.
That meant the real mastermind wanted to hide behind a dead man's reputation.
Suddenly Arthur's phone vibrated.
A new message appeared.
COME ALONE. BRING ISABELLA.
Lorenzo stared at the screen.
Isabella whispered:
“They know we're here.”
Camila stepped closer.
“Then we should leave.”
“No,” Lorenzo said.
He looked at Isabella.
“They want her.”
Isabella understood.
She had been the target from the beginning.
May you like
Not because she was a maid.
Because she had discovered something Arthur could not afford to let anyone see.
