We found an old laptop.
My hands shook as I inserted the disc.
The screen flickered.
Then—
Laura.
Alive.
My breath stopped.
“My loves…” she said, crying. “If you’re watching this… then something has gone wrong.”
Ethan whispered, “Mom…”
She continued:
“Diane has been pressuring me… about the inheritance. She wants everything. She threatened me… threatened the girls…”
The room tilted.
“No…” I whispered. “That’s not possible…”
But she wasn’t done.
“I had no choice. I had to disappear to protect them…”
Silence.
Then the video ended.
We sat there frozen.
Ethan finally spoke.
“Dad… Diane is upstairs.”
Everything stopped.
I stood up slowly.
“Then she’s going to answer for everything.”
I brought her back.
She saw the laptop.
And she knew.
“I never wanted this,” she whispered.
But it was too late.
Because the truth was already playing.
And she broke.
“I didn’t kill her,” she cried. “She didn’t die. She staged it.”
The room collapsed.
My knees almost gave out.
“What?”
“She’s alive, Daniel…”
Silence.
Then the world changed.
Six hours later, we drove to the coast.
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