I showed Officer Taylor the latest one. Baby, please. We can work this out. I’ll get help. Don’t destroy everything we’ve built. What we built, I said quietly, was a prison. It just had very expensive walls. A knock on the door interrupted us. Another officer entered, his expression serious. Miss Porter, we have some visitors who’d like to speak with you.
One is Brooke Harrison’s lawyer. The other, he hesitated, says she’s your sister-in-law. Catherine Harrison, Matthew’s sister. My heart skipped a beat. Catherine, or Kate, as she preferred, was Matthew’s younger sister, the black sheep of the Harrison family. She’d been cut off financially 5 years ago after refusing to participate in what she called their toxic dynasty.
I hadn’t spoken to her since. Another relationship Matthew had managed to sever. Kate’s here. My voice wavered for the first time that night. Officer Taylor watched me carefully. Would you like to speak with them? I stood up, smoothing my wine stained blouse. “Yes, but first, there’s something you need to know about the Harrison family business.
Something Kate and I are probably the only ones brave enough or stupid enough to tell you.” The officer raised an eyebrow. “What’s that?” “The real reason Brooke orchestrated that dinner last night. You see, she recently discovered something I’ve known for months. Her perfect son, my controlling husband, has been embezzling from his own family’s foundation, and I have proof of every transaction.
As I followed Officer Taylor to the meeting room, I couldn’t help but wonder, was I about to find an ally in Kate, or was this another Harrison family trap? What I did know was that the next few minutes would determine not just my future, but potentially the fate of everyone who had ever been caught in the Harrison family’s web of manipulation and deceit.
I straightened my shoulders and took a deep breath. Whatever was waiting for me behind that door, I was finally ready to face it. After all, I’d already survived their worst. Or so I thought. But what Kate was about to tell me would change everything I thought I knew about the past 15 years of my life.
Kate looked exactly as I remembered her. Wild curly hair, no makeup, and a defiant glint in her eyes that the Harrisons had never managed to extinguish. She sat alone in the interview room. No sign of Brook’s lawyer. When our eyes met, she stood up and did something that made my breath catch. She hugged me. I saw the video.
