I Was Dared to Dance With the Quiet Girl—Then She Whispered Something Unforgettable
Chapter 10
The investigation widened.
Federal agents took the documents.
The reporter published the financial records.
Richard Morgan was arrested within forty-eight hours.
But he refused to speak.
The second man remained unidentified.
My father told investigators he had once worked with him.
A man named Victor Hale.
Victor had handled the money.
He had created the shell companies.
And unlike Richard, he had never appeared in public.
Nobody knew where he lived.
Nobody knew what he looked like.
The symbol led us to an old accounting firm.
Inside a locked cabinet, agents found photographs.
Victor was in several of them.
But the last photograph showed something unexpected.
Victor standing beside my father.
And beside them…
my mother.
I looked at her.
“Why were you there?”
She cried.
“I was trying to save you.”
She explained that Victor had approached her after Daniel died.
He offered protection.
She refused.
Instead, she secretly helped my father move evidence.
For three years, she had pretended not to know where he was.
She had carried the guilt alone.
“I thought you hated your father because of me,” she whispered.
“I never hated him.”
“I know that now.”
I hugged her.
Then the door opened.
An agent stepped inside.
“We found Victor.”
Everyone turned.
“Where?”
“He contacted Richard’s attorney.”
“Why?”
The agent handed us a photograph.
Victor was holding a folder.
On the front was one word.
CARTER.
My father’s face changed.
“That’s the ledger.”
“But you said the original ledger was missing.”
“It was.”
The agent looked at him.
“Not anymore.”
