Millionaire Sees Twin Girls standing beside His Son’s Grave, Their Secret Leaves Him Speechless
Chapter 4
The next morning, Daniel asked Nora and Elise to tell him about their mother.
They described Claire as kind, stubborn, and constantly worried.
“She used to say Ethan was the only adult who never lied to us,” Nora said.
Daniel didn’t know whether that comforted or disturbed him.
“Why did she disappear?”
“We don’t know.”
“Did she ever talk about my family?”
The twins hesitated.
“She said your wife helped her once.”
Daniel sat back.
“How?”
“Mom was scared.”
“Of what?”
“Someone was trying to take us.”
Daniel’s expression hardened.
“Who?”
“She didn’t say.”
Elise looked at her sister.
Then whispered, “She said it was connected to a company.”
Daniel’s mind immediately went to Mercer Holdings.
His family business.
“What company?”
“She wouldn’t tell us.”
Daniel spent the next several hours searching through old records.
Mercer Holdings had thousands of employees, hundreds of subsidiaries, and decades of transactions.
Finding one connection to Claire Bell should have been difficult.
Instead, it took Marcus less than an hour.
“There.”
He placed a document on Daniel’s desk.
A foundation payment.
Five years earlier.
$180,000 transferred to a private legal trust.
Recipient: Claire Bell.
Daniel stared at the document.
“Who authorized this?”
Marcus looked uncomfortable.
“Your wife.”
Daniel sat down.
Margaret had never mentioned it.
“Why would she give Claire this much money?”
“I don’t know.”
“Find out.”
Marcus nodded.
Hours later, he returned with an old handwritten note recovered from Margaret’s personal files.
Daniel recognized her handwriting immediately.
Claire, I promised I’d protect them if anything happened to you. I don’t know how long I can keep them hidden. If Ethan finds out, he’ll try to help. Please don’t let him.
Daniel read the note twice.
There was another line beneath it.
The Mercer name is not as clean as Ethan believes.
Daniel stared at those words.
His father had built the company from nothing.
Daniel had expanded it into a multinational corporation.
He had spent his entire adult life believing the Mercer name represented discipline, integrity, and ambition.
What had Margaret discovered?
That evening, Daniel asked Marcus to investigate the company’s oldest records.
Not current executives.
Not recent scandals.
Everything.
Founding documents.
Old acquisitions.
Private trusts.
Discontinued subsidiaries.
Hidden partnerships.
Meanwhile, the twins sat in the library drawing pictures.
Daniel walked in and noticed something strange.
They had drawn Ethan.
He was standing beneath a large oak tree.
Behind him was a blue house.
And beside the house was a red mailbox.
Daniel recognized the house immediately.
His breath caught.
It belonged to Margaret’s childhood home.
A property she had inherited and sold twenty years ago.
“Why did you draw this?”
Nora looked up.
“Ethan took us there.”
“When?”
“Before he died.”
Daniel stared at the drawing.
“What did he find?”
Nora shook her head.
“He told us not to go inside.”
“Why?”
“Because there was something dangerous there.”
Daniel felt a chill.
The house had been empty for years.
He suddenly remembered the brass key.
317.
He searched old property records.
Margaret’s childhood home had been demolished.
But before demolition, the contents had been moved into a municipal storage facility.
Unit number?
Daniel stood so quickly that his chair fell backward.
Marcus appeared in the doorway.
“Sir?”
Daniel held up the key.
“We’re going to find out what my son was trying to uncover.”
