Then once she’s financially dependent, they have complete control. I thought about all the other Harrison wives I’d met over the years. Matthew’s cousins wives, family, friends. How many of them had been victims of this scheme? How many businesses had been destroyed? But why? I asked, though part of me already knew the answer.
Power, control, and Kate hesitated, money laundering. The Harrison Family Foundation, it’s not just about embezzlement. They use these failing businesses to clean money from less legitimate family enterprises. Each bankruptcy, each financial crisis, it’s all documented and justified. Perfect cover for moving funds around. I felt sick.
That’s why Brooke was so insistent about me paying for everything through my business accounts. Exactly. But you did something they didn’t expect, didn’t you? Kate’s eyes sparkled. You kept records. You built an escape fund. You survived. And now they’re scared. I realized that’s why Brooke orchestrated that dinner. She found out about my documentation.
She found out you were working with an accountant who used to handle some of their legitimate business interests. Malcolm Jones. They’ve been trying to locate all copies of your records. The name hit me like a thunderbolt. Malcolm had approached me 6 months ago, claiming he’d noticed irregularities in how the Harrison family interacted with my business accounts.
He’d helped me understand the patterns, gather evidence. A knock on the door made us both jump. Officer Taylor entered. Her expression serious. Rebecca, we just got a call from your sister Leah’s nurse. There’s been an incident at the hospital. My heart stopped. What kind of incident? Someone tried to access her room claiming to be family.
When they were denied entry, they became aggressive. Security intervened, but Matthew, Kate, and I said simultaneously. We need to move quickly, Kate said standing. There’s more you need to know, but right now we need to get to the hospital. Leah isn’t just your sister, Rebecca. She’s a witness. Three years ago, before her cancer diagnosis, she worked as a bookkeeper for one of the Harrison subsidiary companies.
