{"id":18877,"date":"2026-09-24T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=18877"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:57:06","slug":"part-10-natalie-took-eleanor-from-the-hospital-and-the-reason-she-gave-forced-me-to-question-who-had-really-murdered-my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=18877","title":{"rendered":"PART 10 \u2013 Natalie Took Eleanor From the Hospital, and the Reason She Gave Forced Me to Question Who Had Really Murdered My Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the time we reached Valley Regional, the entire east wing had been sealed.<\/p>\n<p>Police filled the lobby.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital administrators stood in clusters whispering into phones.<\/p>\n<p>Two security officers were replaying surveillance footage.<\/p>\n<p>I demanded to see it.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Cole tried to slow me down.<\/p>\n<p>I did not slow down.<\/p>\n<p>The footage showed Natalie wearing stolen scrubs and the unconscious officer\u2019s badge.<\/p>\n<p>She pushed a transport chair through the surgical recovery area.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor sat in it.<\/p>\n<p>Awake.<\/p>\n<p>Weak.<\/p>\n<p>But not restrained.<\/p>\n<p>That changed everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe went willingly,\u201d Priya said.<\/p>\n<p>I leaned closer to the monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor looked pale and exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>A bandage covered part of her side.<\/p>\n<p>But she was speaking to Natalie.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Natalie bent down.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor grabbed her wrist.<\/p>\n<p>Not like a prisoner.<\/p>\n<p>Like someone trying to stop her from leaving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlay the audio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is none.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother camera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The administrator shook his head.<\/p>\n<p>The nearest hallway camera captured only video.<\/p>\n<p>They exited through a staff elevator.<\/p>\n<p>Nine minutes later, Natalie drove away in a hospital maintenance vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrack it,\u201d Cole said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey found it already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree blocks south.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie had switched vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Priya folded her arms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Eleanor chose to go, Natalie told her something persuasive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought about the file stolen from Margaret\u2019s study.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor\u2019s location.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven years of silence.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie had known.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Eleanor knew that now.<\/p>\n<p>My phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown number.<\/p>\n<p>I answered.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not hang up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is Eleanor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut her on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A rustling sound.<\/p>\n<p>Then Eleanor\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My knees nearly gave out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Natalie force you to leave?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did you go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause she showed me something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe will tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. You tell me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret wrote to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the hospital wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEleven years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everything stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had your address?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe contacted you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you said\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI received the letter yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I did not understand.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie came back on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father had it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDouglas intercepted it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it named him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNamed him as what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA witness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The words made no sense at first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarriet is alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. I mean Douglas witnessed Harriet\u2019s death?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot Harriet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her voice shook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Priya.<\/p>\n<p>She was watching my face.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe woman who raised me was not my biological mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That part no longer surprised me.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho was?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone named Linda Brennan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDouglas\u2019s wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot biological?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Natalie inhaled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a second I thought I had misheard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I gripped the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCeleste is Margaret\u2019s daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are saying Mom had two daughters?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy Stephen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDouglas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sat down.<\/p>\n<p>Priya whispered, \u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I held up a hand.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie continued.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret and Douglas had been involved briefly before she married Raymond.<\/p>\n<p>Not romantically in the way Natalie understood it.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas had helped move Margaret after Arthur arranged her escape from Stephen.<\/p>\n<p>During that period, they became close.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret became pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>She did not know until later.<\/p>\n<p>By then Douglas had reconciled with Linda.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret and Raymond were planning their marriage.<\/p>\n<p>She panicked.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas offered a solution.<\/p>\n<p>He and Linda would raise the baby.<\/p>\n<p>Privately.<\/p>\n<p>No St. Agnes paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>No Stephen.<\/p>\n<p>No network.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret agreed.<\/p>\n<p>That child was Natalie.<\/p>\n<p>My wife.<\/p>\n<p>The woman I had married eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The woman Margaret had apparently given birth to.<\/p>\n<p>I stood so suddenly the chair scraped backward.<\/p>\n<p>Priya stared at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I could not answer immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie\u2019s voice broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I believed that part.<\/p>\n<p>At least at first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou married me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Margaret?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she know who you were when I brought you home?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hallway blurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd she let us marry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe did not know when you started dating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut before the wedding?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I could barely breathe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did she say nothing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Linda told her Douglas would destroy Raymond if she interfered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDestroy how?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpose the adoption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would have hurt me, not Raymond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret believed Douglas had evidence connecting Raymond to the original buyers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photograph.<\/p>\n<p>The payment.<\/p>\n<p>The staged documents.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas could make Raymond look guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret feared that if she revealed Natalie\u2019s identity, Douglas would retaliate by destroying Raymond publicly and exposing me before she could prove the truth.<\/p>\n<p>So she waited.<\/p>\n<p>Then she got sick.<\/p>\n<p>Then she died.<\/p>\n<p>I felt sick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou knew this when?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father\u2019s safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe kept a second one beneath the floor in the old Brennan office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did you go there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Harriet told me before the warehouse that Dad had hidden personal files separately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have lied so many times I cannot tell which truth is supposed to matter anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, you do not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I forced myself to ask.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Eleanor see?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA letter Margaret wrote her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would Margaret write Eleanor about you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause she wanted to tell you everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter explained that Natalie was Margaret\u2019s biological daughter.<\/p>\n<p>That made Natalie my adoptive sister.<\/p>\n<p>Not biologically related to me.<\/p>\n<p>But raised separately.<\/p>\n<p>And married to me without either of us knowing.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret had intended to confess.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas stopped the letter before it reached Eleanor.<\/p>\n<p>Then Margaret died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does this have to do with her death?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Natalie\u2019s voice lowered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father wrote a note on the envelope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat note?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret knows I kept the letter. Pierce says we have six days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The exact interval.<\/p>\n<p>Six days before Margaret died.<\/p>\n<p>I stood in the hospital corridor staring at nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPierce killed her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Douglas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStephen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen put Eleanor back on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor returned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you trust her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The honesty surprised me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why are you with her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause she knows where Margaret\u2019s other letters are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat letters?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ones she wrote you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake them to police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the person holding them is still inside the network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone you trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every person I trusted was disappearing one by one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cName them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need proof first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop protecting me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, you are. Everyone keeps deciding what I should know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>Then Eleanor said, \u201cYou are right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I waited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe letters are with Raymond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I almost laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has had them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to Margaret\u2019s letter, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why not ask him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause one of the letters says he was instructed never to give them to you unless Margaret\u2019s death was proven unnatural.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My blood went cold.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond knew there was a condition attached to her letters.<\/p>\n<p>Did he know why?<\/p>\n<p>I hung up and went straight to intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond was awake.<\/p>\n<p>He saw my face and knew immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou found out about Natalie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His eyes closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor how long?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince before your wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The anger came so fast it almost felt clean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou stood beside me at the altar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou let me marry Mom\u2019s daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is not your blood relative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is your defense?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen what is?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I paced away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you tell me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret begged me not to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was dead before the wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what did her fear have to do with it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raymond said Margaret had left instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Do not expose Natalie until Douglas and Pierce can no longer retaliate.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret believed Natalie was innocent.<\/p>\n<p>She wanted both of us protected.<\/p>\n<p>Then Raymond made his own choice.<\/p>\n<p>He kept waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Year after year.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas remained alive.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce supposedly died.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond convinced himself the danger had passed but the revelation would only destroy two lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you decided our marriage was easier than truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said it without looking away.<\/p>\n<p>I had never hated him.<\/p>\n<p>Not really.<\/p>\n<p>Even after the adoption secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Even after all the delays.<\/p>\n<p>In that moment, I came close.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are Mom\u2019s letters?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked toward the bedside cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my garage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich garage?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe storage unit behind my old shop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKey?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPriya has it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Priya, who had followed me into the room, looked startled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a key to your evidence locker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSame key.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She reached into her bag.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a green metal cabinet. Bottom drawer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I turned to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I almost laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere always is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His face tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret did not die the night the hospice report says she did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I turned slowly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe died twelve hours earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy was the time changed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPierce altered it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause somebody visited her during those twelve hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raymond stared at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNatalie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I felt everything inside me go still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she know Margaret was her mother?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy was she there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe came to confront Margaret about the Vale trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore we were married?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were already engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou told me Natalie knew almost nothing then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought she knew only about the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret sent me out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor how long?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you came back?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNatalie was gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Mom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I exhaled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor how long?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Natalie did not kill her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened in that hour?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raymond\u2019s eyes filled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret told me Natalie had made a terrible choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat choice?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had given Pierce access to the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNatalie let Pierce in?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe claimed she did not know what he intended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Pierce?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came after Natalie left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo kill Mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raymond nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI fought him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never told police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe threatened you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had photographs of you at work. Natalie at home. Our house. Eleanor\u2019s address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every route led back to fear.<\/p>\n<p>Every silence justified itself through another threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you see him give her anything?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen how did she die?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raymond looked away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I returned to the bedroom after Pierce left, Margaret had already stopped breathing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did Pierce leave?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I stabbed him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That scar on Pierce.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered blood on his shirt at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Not from years ago, but the old scar might still be there.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond continued.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce escaped.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond called the hospice number.<\/p>\n<p>The nurse who arrived worked under Pierce.<\/p>\n<p>She changed the recorded time of death.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond did not understand why then.<\/p>\n<p>Later he realized the false time created an alibi.<\/p>\n<p>For Pierce.<\/p>\n<p>And for someone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raymond looked directly at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDouglas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Douglas had been at a public charity dinner at the official time Margaret died.<\/p>\n<p>But at the real time?<\/p>\n<p>No one knew.<\/p>\n<p>Priya\u2019s phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>She listened.<\/p>\n<p>Then looked at us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey found Eleanor and Natalie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOld Brennan office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Relief lasted half a second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is another problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe building is on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=18878\">Click here to continue reading: PART 11: The Brennan Office Fire Nearly Destroyed Margaret\u2019s Letters, but One Surviving Page Identified the Person Who Ordered Her Death<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time we reached Valley Regional, the entire east wing had been sealed. Police filled the lobby. Hospital administrators stood in clusters whispering into phones. 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