{"id":13651,"date":"2026-09-18T22:09:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=13651"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:09:04","slug":"part-11-jennifer-escaped-the-building-with-blood-on-her-coat-and-one-secret-that-changed-everything-we-thought-dererick-was-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=13651","title":{"rendered":"PART 11 \u2013 Jennifer Escaped the Building With Blood on Her Coat and One Secret That Changed Everything We Thought Dererick Was Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Collins refused to leave the rehabilitation facility until someone promised her they were looking for Sophie.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that from Detective Shaw forty-three minutes after the shots.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer had emerged through a side door with blood on one sleeve, stumbled across frozen grass and collapsed near an unmarked police vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The blood was not hers.<\/p>\n<p>At least not all of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhose?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas she shot?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo gunshot wound identified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is she?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing transported.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this hospital?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecurity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That single word told me how frightened investigators were of whoever remained connected to Dererick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Jennifer say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery little.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she say Sophie is alive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Relief hit hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInside?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe believes so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieves?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer was separated from her before she escaped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t give you tactical details while officers are still operating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I hated the answer.<\/p>\n<p>I accepted it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDererick?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot in custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElaine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot in custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo confirmation he\u2019s inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about the gunshots?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill being investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw sounded exhausted now.<\/p>\n<p>Behind her voice I heard radios and engines.<\/p>\n<p>Then she said, \u201cJennifer mentioned you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My breath stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow does she know me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knows your name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Dererick?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresumably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe asked whether Anna got out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a moment I could not speak.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer knew what had been planned for me.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe she had known for months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell her yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell her I\u2019m safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd tell her I\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Clare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor living in that house while she was being hurt there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnna, that is not something\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust tell her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw was quiet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before she ended the call, I asked one more question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she say what graduation means?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another pause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot what we thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to speak with her properly before I give you an incomplete interpretation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said she talked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe gave us fragments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive me the fragments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw exhaled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGraduation wasn\u2019t simply transfer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdentity replacement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Clare watched my face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I repeated the words aloud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdentity replacement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to Jennifer, victims were not always made to disappear permanently. Some were given new identities, new histories and controlled environments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor what purpose?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifferent purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My skin crawled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExplain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer says Dererick\u2019s network created people who could be placed where clients wanted them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I struggled to understand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaced where?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouseholds. Care situations. Employment. Relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may when we have more information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did they do to Jennifer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe says they convinced people she had abandoned her daughter, then isolated her until she no longer believed anyone would trust her account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrugs?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThreats?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSophie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsed as leverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t she escape?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe tried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer was immediate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many times?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least twice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey showed her photographs of Sophie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecent ones?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So my guess had been right.<\/p>\n<p>They had maintained control without chains.<\/p>\n<p>A school entrance.<\/p>\n<p>A bus stop.<\/p>\n<p>A bedroom window.<\/p>\n<p>Any image could become a threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat identity did they give Jennifer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas she working for them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe says they forced her to assist with other victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clare covered her mouth.<\/p>\n<p>My earlier fear returned.<\/p>\n<p>Graduates becoming participants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she hurt people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know the extent of what she was made to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes she think she\u2019s guilty?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw\u2019s voice softened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I understood that instantly.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe better than I wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>Dererick had spent weeks making me question whether my own behavior caused my injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine eighteen months of being told that survival made you complicit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy was she at the airport?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDererick ordered her there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom where?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA controlled apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhose?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConnected to Bellweather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas Sophie already at the facility?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer believes Sophie was taken this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Dererick show Jennifer on his phone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA live image of Sophie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I gripped the chair.<\/p>\n<p>There it was.<\/p>\n<p>The moment on the airport footage.<\/p>\n<p>One screen.<\/p>\n<p>One threat.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer followed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy bring Jennifer to the rehab building?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe says Dererick needed her to help with tonight\u2019s transfer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The word struck harder than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer had been scheduled to participate in my graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Not willingly.<\/p>\n<p>But physically present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was she supposed to do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelp convince you that what happened after you woke was voluntary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer would present herself as someone who had been through the same transition and was safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A manufactured witness.<\/p>\n<p>Someone saying I had chosen to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Someone telling me the confusion would pass.<\/p>\n<p>Someone Dererick could point to as proof that resistance was irrational.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat identity did they plan for me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnknown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid they plan to tell Clare I disappeared?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLikely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy clients?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I imagined my laptop abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>My car somewhere deliberate.<\/p>\n<p>A message written in my voice.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe an argument staged with Dererick.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe evidence that I had run away.<\/p>\n<p>The possibilities were endless because he knew everything about me.<\/p>\n<p>Passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Habits.<\/p>\n<p>Friends.<\/p>\n<p>The phrases I used in texts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Jennifer know where they were going to send me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she know who requested me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw became silent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe mentioned a client code.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My pulse quickened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat code?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA17.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas that on the laptop?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes it mean anything?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Jennifer know the client?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe says she never met them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThem?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was her wording.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than one person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did they want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe doesn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That answer frightened me almost more than knowing.<\/p>\n<p>The phone call ended when Shaw was pulled away.<\/p>\n<p>Clare sat beside me.<\/p>\n<p>For several minutes we stared at nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Then she said, \u201cIdentity replacement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were going to make you disappear while keeping you alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnna.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clare took my hand.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of Jennifer\u2019s missing-person article.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother telling reporters she would never abandon Sophie.<\/p>\n<p>For eighteen months, strangers had debated whether Jennifer left voluntarily while Dererick\u2019s network used that doubt against her.<\/p>\n<p>They did not need to erase a body.<\/p>\n<p>They erased credibility.<\/p>\n<p>That was cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>More sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>Crueler.<\/p>\n<p>Around noon, Detective Brooks brought another update.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie had been found.<\/p>\n<p>Alive.<\/p>\n<p>I stood so quickly the chair struck the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInside the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInjured?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing evaluated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer knows?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I covered my face.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 2:17 that morning, relief lasted longer than a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered Dererick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you get him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks\u2019s silence answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe escaped?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not located him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are service tunnels beneath part of the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course there are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers are searching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElaine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMissing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso unaccounted for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo all three could be together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVehicles?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SUV remains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen they have another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLikely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I paced once across the room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere would Dererick go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s something we hoped you could help with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI apparently don\u2019t know my husband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know his habits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis fake habits?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Where would Dererick go when plans failed?<\/p>\n<p>He hated improvising.<\/p>\n<p>Even vacations had itineraries.<\/p>\n<p>He kept duplicate chargers in every suitcase.<\/p>\n<p>He carried cash folded by denomination.<\/p>\n<p>He stored spare keys.<\/p>\n<p>Prepared explanations before injuries appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Prepared alternate identities before victims vanished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has contingencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink about places he insisted on controlling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The question changed something.<\/p>\n<p>Places.<\/p>\n<p>Not people.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of storage units.<\/p>\n<p>Hotels.<\/p>\n<p>His office.<\/p>\n<p>Then a memory surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>A cabin.<\/p>\n<p>Dererick had mentioned it several times during our marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Not ours.<\/p>\n<p>A colleague\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed he occasionally used it during hunting season, though I had never known him to hunt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPine Lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks\u2019s pen moved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a cabin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAddress?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOwner?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said a work friend named Tom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks looked up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My skin prickled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVale?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never knew his last name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you ever meet him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen was Dererick last there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he went six weeks ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor how long?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he take anything?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I remembered him loading the SUV.<\/p>\n<p>A cooler.<\/p>\n<p>A duffel.<\/p>\n<p>His personal laptop?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks was already calling someone.<\/p>\n<p>Pine Lake was forty miles north of the rehabilitation facility.<\/p>\n<p>A perfect contingency location.<\/p>\n<p>Isolated.<\/p>\n<p>Seasonal houses.<\/p>\n<p>Few neighbors in September.<\/p>\n<p>While he spoke, another memory surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks covered the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came home with mud on his shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not unusual for a cabin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. He also had a blue plastic wristband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked if he\u2019d gone somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrivate shooting range.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you believe him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy does the wristband matter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw one in the photographs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich photographs?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My pulse accelerated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the later pictures. There was something blue around her wrist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks stared at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re certain?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould it have been a hospital band?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He returned to his call.<\/p>\n<p>His voice sharpened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdd Pine Lake. Search property records connected to Thomas Vale, Bellweather, Northstar and known associates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, an answer came back.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Vale owned no cabin.<\/p>\n<p>But Bellweather Recovery Holdings did.<\/p>\n<p>A property on the eastern shore.<\/p>\n<p>Shaw called shortly afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Teams were heading there.<\/p>\n<p>Then she told me something else.<\/p>\n<p>Police had recovered a laptop from the rehabilitation facility.<\/p>\n<p>Not Dererick\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>A network computer.<\/p>\n<p>Inside was a directory containing upcoming graduations.<\/p>\n<p>Mine was first.<\/p>\n<p>Two more women followed.<\/p>\n<p>One scheduled in six days.<\/p>\n<p>Another in eleven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re locating them now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo they know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre their husbands involved?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scale widened again.<\/p>\n<p>Dererick might not be an aberration.<\/p>\n<p>He might be one recruiter among several.<\/p>\n<p>One spouse among several.<\/p>\n<p>One person who turned intimacy into access.<\/p>\n<p>Then Shaw said, \u201cThere\u2019s another file.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA contingency document.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout active candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf an operation is compromised before graduation, the responsible handler is instructed to either recover the candidate or trigger a discredit protocol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvidence designed to make the victim appear unstable, dishonest or criminally involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought of sleepwalking.<\/p>\n<p>Confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Calls I did not remember.<\/p>\n<p>Dererick had already begun laying groundwork.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat evidence?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould be fabricated communications, financial activity, medical history, allegations against other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgainst Clare?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPotentially.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at my sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does my file say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour discredit package is already prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My mouth went dry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s in it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA series of messages appearing to come from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo whom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do they say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat you planned to leave Dererick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I almost laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s predictable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey suggest you were having an affair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho with?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Peterson\u2019s son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve met him twice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw\u2019s next words came carefully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are fabricated messages in which you discuss poisoning Dererick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a moment I could not speak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was going to make me look like the dangerous one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if I accused him of drugging me\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could claim you reversed the accusation after planning to harm him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The elegance of it sickened me.<\/p>\n<p>Every truth already had a counterfeit version waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Then Shaw\u2019s voice changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have movement at Pine Lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I gripped the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDererick?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA vehicle just left the Bellweather cabin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnits are following at distance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho\u2019s driving?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t confirm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are they going?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toward town.<\/p>\n<p>Toward me.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=13652\">Click here to continue reading: PART 12: Dererick Came Back Toward Town With His Escape Plan Collapsing, and the Person Beside Him Was Someone I Trusted<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Collins refused to leave the rehabilitation facility until someone promised her they were looking for Sophie. 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