{"id":9237,"date":"2026-09-27T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feelonestory.online\/?p=9237"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:01:09","slug":"part-19-taking-control-of-bellweather-let-me-freeze-millions-but-one-hidden-payment-revealed-who-had-ordered-the-lake-geneva-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelonestory.online\/?p=9237","title":{"rendered":"PART 19 \u2013 Taking Control Of Bellweather Let Me Freeze Millions, But One Hidden Payment Revealed Who Had Ordered The Lake Geneva Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first signature I made as Bellweather\u2019s temporary controlling beneficiary froze every discretionary transfer the company could still reach.<\/p>\n<p>No celebration.<\/p>\n<p>No applause.<\/p>\n<p>Just my name on a stack of documents while Eleanor and federal counsel checked every line twice.<\/p>\n<p>I signed Chloe Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>Not Lily Carter.<\/p>\n<p>Not because Lily did not matter.<\/p>\n<p>Because Chloe was the person who had lived through all of it.<\/p>\n<p>The stolen money.<\/p>\n<p>The false emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas Eve eviction.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery that nearly every adult around me had mistaken control for care.<\/p>\n<p>My name had been given to me through deception.<\/p>\n<p>It was still mine.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan watched from a conference room while agents questioned him.<\/p>\n<p>Charles remained in federal custody elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in decades, neither man could move Bellweather money without other people seeing it.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor calculated what could be frozen immediately.<\/p>\n<p>A little over eleven million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Other assets remained tied up overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Properties would require separate orders.<\/p>\n<p>Investment positions could take weeks.<\/p>\n<p>But the movement stopped.<\/p>\n<p>That alone mattered.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian stood beside the window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just froze eleven million dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI signed what lawyers told me to sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s usually how people freeze eleven million dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel joined us carrying another box from the archive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgents found payment records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kind we\u2019ve been looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He placed a folder down.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicle maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Private security.<\/p>\n<p>Consultants.<\/p>\n<p>Medical facilities.<\/p>\n<p>One payment matched the mechanic connected to Rachel\u2019s crash.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s face had gone pale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSame company?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOwner?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVictor Hale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We all turned.<\/p>\n<p>Victor was across the hall under questioning.<\/p>\n<p>Michael swore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVictor said he didn\u2019t know what happened to Rachel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel opened the file.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanic had received twelve thousand dollars from a Victor-controlled investigative company two days before Rachel died.<\/p>\n<p>Not directly from Charles.<\/p>\n<p>Not Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p>Victor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t prove sabotage,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s voice remained controlled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it proves Victor lied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another record showed the mechanic closed his shop three weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Moved to Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>No criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>No explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas came closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVictor handles problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The phrase sounded uglier every time.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid my mother ever mention Victor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily joined us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knew him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel hired him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That changed everything again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo investigate Charles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The payment might not have been murder money.<\/p>\n<p>It might have been Rachel\u2019s own investigative expense.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel exhaled slowly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why did Victor hide that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause he hides everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily searched another folder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel paid Victor twenty thousand dollars six weeks before she died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did he deliver?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnknown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael shook his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. Victor never works without a report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen where is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably not here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked toward the conference room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsk him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents would not let us interrupt questioning.<\/p>\n<p>So we kept searching.<\/p>\n<p>Bellweather\u2019s archive had been organized around people, not transactions.<\/p>\n<p>That revealed its true function.<\/p>\n<p>Financial crime may have funded the network.<\/p>\n<p>Information controlled it.<\/p>\n<p>Every person had a box.<\/p>\n<p>Inside each were weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>Debts.<\/p>\n<p>Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Family secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal acts.<\/p>\n<p>Embarrassments.<\/p>\n<p>Things that could become leverage.<\/p>\n<p>I found my own box.<\/p>\n<p>I had promised Sebastian we would not open these casually.<\/p>\n<p>But this one was mine.<\/p>\n<p>I asked the agent.<\/p>\n<p>He documented it and allowed me to review copies.<\/p>\n<p>The first page contained my college transcripts.<\/p>\n<p>Then tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>Client lists.<\/p>\n<p>Apartment applications.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs.<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures of me walking to coffee shops.<\/p>\n<p>Entering a dentist\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in a park.<\/p>\n<p>Dates over several years.<\/p>\n<p>They had watched me.<\/p>\n<p>Not constantly.<\/p>\n<p>Enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho took these?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agent pointed toward invoice codes.<\/p>\n<p>VH.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Hale.<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>I kept reading.<\/p>\n<p>Notes about my income.<\/p>\n<p>Savings.<\/p>\n<p>Relationship history.<\/p>\n<p>Work habits.<\/p>\n<p>One line made me stop.<\/p>\n<p>SUBJECT SHOWS HIGH FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FAMILY COMPLIANCE.<\/p>\n<p>I laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian looked over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey turned being dependable into a vulnerability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He read it.<\/p>\n<p>His face darkened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamily compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was what they trained you to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>But training only worked because I kept responding.<\/p>\n<p>I no longer needed to punish myself for that.<\/p>\n<p>I did need to understand it.<\/p>\n<p>Another note:<\/p>\n<p>R. reports subject will provide funds if framed as emergency involving A. or S.<\/p>\n<p>R.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca.<\/p>\n<p>Mom had helped profile me.<\/p>\n<p>The knowledge hurt even after everything else.<\/p>\n<p>Dad entered and saw my face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I showed him.<\/p>\n<p>He read silently.<\/p>\n<p>Then sat down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told them how to manipulate you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dad rubbed his forehead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep thinking I\u2019ve reached the worst thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo do I.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another page contained a chart of transfers.<\/p>\n<p>My payments.<\/p>\n<p>Most flowed to Bellweather-linked intermediaries.<\/p>\n<p>One series, however, went somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Private security company.<\/p>\n<p>Hale Strategic Services.<\/p>\n<p>Victor again.<\/p>\n<p>I frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy was my money paying Victor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dad looked closer.<\/p>\n<p>The dates included periods long before the recent investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Victor had surveilled me using money I unknowingly supplied.<\/p>\n<p>Then we found the note explaining why.<\/p>\n<p>MONITOR SUBJECT FOR CONTACT FROM C. CARTER OR T. REED.<\/p>\n<p>Claire or Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca had used my money to fund surveillance designed to prevent my biological parents from reaching me.<\/p>\n<p>That was almost elegant in its cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>I paid to keep myself isolated.<\/p>\n<p>Dad stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I touched his arm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>The words landed.<\/p>\n<p>He sat back down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We stayed.<\/p>\n<p>That mattered too.<\/p>\n<p>An hour later, federal agents released Victor from the interview room but told him not to leave the building.<\/p>\n<p>No arrest yet.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel confronted him immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou took money from Rachel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor looked toward the folder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you found that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe hired me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo investigate Charles?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you discover?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat her mother\u2019s insurance structure was being manipulated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you sabotage her car?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you pay the mechanic?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel moved forward.<\/p>\n<p>Michael caught his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor remained calm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo inspect it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the crash?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel believed someone had tampered with it already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room went still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did the mechanic find?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrake line damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s face emptied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo she knew?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did she drive the car?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe didn\u2019t know the repair was incomplete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor\u2019s answer came too quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mechanic repaired one line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was damage to two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t he fix both?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did not see the second until after the accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s convenient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s documented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor looked at Michael.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy private archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s voice shook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Charles order the sabotage?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never proved it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJonathan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo proof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor looked toward Rebecca\u2019s name on a file.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel saw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stepped closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you saying?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor did not answer directly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel had threatened to expose Rebecca\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca didn\u2019t know Rachel was her daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cruelty of the possibility hit at once.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca may have viewed Rachel as just another outsider threatening the family.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel whispered, \u201cMy grandmother tried to kill my mother without knowing who she was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor shook his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said I never proved who ordered it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what you\u2019re implying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m telling you why Rachel hired me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you tell Evelyn?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaid me to stop investigating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor almost looked offended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had already been paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was his morality.<\/p>\n<p>Transactional, but oddly rigid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen what did you find?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA phone record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked toward the archive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone called the mechanic the night before Rachel died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe call came from the Montgomery house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dad stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur house?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho was home?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel closed his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Dad said, \u201cAnyone else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvelyn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grandma.<\/p>\n<p>Both women had been there.<\/p>\n<p>Either could have called.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you prove which?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why hide this for years?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor\u2019s face hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Evelyn offered me something more valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth about my own family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor nodded.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone had assumed Victor was simply an employee drifting between loyalties.<\/p>\n<p>He was not.<\/p>\n<p>He had his own reason for staying near the Vanes.<\/p>\n<p>His mother had worked for Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p>She died when Victor was twelve.<\/p>\n<p>He always suspected Jonathan was his father.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn claimed she had proof.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas Jonathan your father?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor looked across the hall at the old man behind glass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another branch.<\/p>\n<p>Another secret.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Hale was Evelyn\u2019s nephew.<\/p>\n<p>Dad and Michael\u2019s cousin.<\/p>\n<p>Which meant even the family\u2019s professional fixer was not outside the family.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian covered his face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor said, \u201cLarge families simplify nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could have mentioned it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody asked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou spent decades working for people related to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent decades working for people who paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy help Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause he paid too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat isn\u2019t the whole answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor\u2019s gaze shifted toward Emily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew Sarah\u2019s child existed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou knew Emily was Thomas\u2019s niece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd kept it hidden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy reveal it now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Jonathan began hunting her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily crossed her arms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTouching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor ignored the tone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wanted the Bellweather token.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not take it yourself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hit him with a lamp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor looked almost proud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood swing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The absurdity broke tension for one second.<\/p>\n<p>Then an agent approached with a recovered digital file.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found something you should see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Security footage.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>The night of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Not from the house.<\/p>\n<p>From a hidden trail camera installed by Victor.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted placing it months earlier to monitor the property.<\/p>\n<p>The footage showed a figure moving through the trees.<\/p>\n<p>Rifle.<\/p>\n<p>Dark clothing.<\/p>\n<p>The face appeared for only seconds.<\/p>\n<p>But enough.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not one of Charles\u2019s men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor\u2019s expression changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael leaned toward the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone turned.<\/p>\n<p>Emily went white.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The figure did resemble her.<\/p>\n<p>Height.<\/p>\n<p>Hair.<\/p>\n<p>Build.<\/p>\n<p>But she shook her head violently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The footage timestamp matched.<\/p>\n<p>She had told Daniel she was at Charles\u2019s office that week.<\/p>\n<p>Could she prove it?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding access logs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agents checked.<\/p>\n<p>Her keycard entered Vane\u2019s office forty minutes before the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>No exit recorded until the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>That did not guarantee she stayed.<\/p>\n<p>But it mattered.<\/p>\n<p>Victor replayed the footage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shooter turned.<\/p>\n<p>A scar appeared near the left temple.<\/p>\n<p>The same scar from the photograph of Victor\u2019s motel meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Not Emily.<\/p>\n<p>The resemblance was superficial at distance.<\/p>\n<p>Victor looked stunned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not Emily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He knew.<\/p>\n<p>I could see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVictor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His face tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody spoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cName?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEleanor Hale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour sister is alive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere has she been?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking for Jonathan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another hidden relative.<\/p>\n<p>Another operative.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter had been Victor\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy fire at Chloe?\u201d Dad demanded.<\/p>\n<p>Victor stared at the frozen image.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wasn\u2019t supposed to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who was the target?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He examined the bullet angles.<\/p>\n<p>Porch light.<\/p>\n<p>Ground near me.<\/p>\n<p>Tree.<\/p>\n<p>His face changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wasn\u2019t aiming at Chloe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed toward the frame.<\/p>\n<p>Michael had been standing just behind me.<\/p>\n<p>The second bullet had passed between us.<\/p>\n<p>Victor whispered, \u201cShe was aiming at Michael.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My uncle stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor looked toward Jonathan\u2019s glass-walled room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Michael knows where Jonathan buried the first body.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/feelonestory.online\/?p=9238\">Click here to continue reading: PART 20: Michael Took Us To The Place Jonathan Feared Most, Where A Buried File Revealed The First Death Behind Bellweather<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first signature I made as Bellweather\u2019s temporary controlling beneficiary froze every discretionary transfer the company could still reach. 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