{"id":29769,"date":"2026-10-04T15:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=29769"},"modified":"2026-10-04T15:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:34:55","slug":"part-9-the-name-behind-the-missing-millions-forced-reynolds-to-admit-sarah-had-been-protecting-me-from-more-than-marcus-vale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=29769","title":{"rendered":"PART 9 \u2013 The Name Behind the Missing Millions Forced Reynolds to Admit Sarah Had Been Protecting Me From More Than Marcus Vale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not leave the prison immediately.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly twenty minutes, I sat inside my car with both hands resting on the steering wheel and Sarah\u2019s last sentence repeating in my head.<\/p>\n<p>Your name may be the only one he knows.<\/p>\n<p>I had spent years learning to distrust dramatic statements. Sarah\u2019s old life had taught me that fear became dangerous when it outran evidence.<\/p>\n<p>So I called Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p>He answered with a distracted, \u201cYeah?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need you to tell me who the money belonged to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw Sarah again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat exactly did she say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat Marcus stole from someone outside the organization. Someone they were afraid of. She says my identity may have been attached to the theft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds did not respond.<\/p>\n<p>I waited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou already knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew there was a third-party financial interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA third-party financial interest?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the language in the file.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou people can make a fire sound like a temperature discrepancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s intentional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not giving you a name over the phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I\u2019m coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This time Reynolds did not argue.<\/p>\n<p>The building looked exactly as it had during every other bad revelation\u2014gray lobby, security desk, fluorescent light that made everyone look tired.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds met me upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>He carried no coffee.<\/p>\n<p>That worried me more than it should have.<\/p>\n<p>We entered a small interview room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore we start,\u201d he said, \u201cI want you to understand something. Sarah knew pieces. We knew other pieces. Nobody had the complete picture at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have it now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least you\u2019re consistent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He ignored that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe network Sarah worked for moved money belonging to many kinds of clients. Some knew exactly what they were paying for. Some used intermediaries. Some were legitimate businesses trying to conceal illicit transactions. Others were criminal organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the man Marcus stole from?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds opened a folder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdrian Voss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name meant nothing to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficially? Investor. Logistics entrepreneur. Property developer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnofficially?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone with financial connections to organized criminal groups in several countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I felt my stomach tighten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMob?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat word is too simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViolent?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That answer required no qualification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow violent?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople connected to disputes involving him have disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re telling me this now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou weren\u2019t believed to be exposed to Voss directly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah thinks I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re examining that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarcus put my identity on the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn part of the trail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich means Voss could think I stole it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPotentially.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Marcus take?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent estimate is between thirty-two and forty million dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The number landed strangely.<\/p>\n<p>It was too large to feel real.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Voss alone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you said tens of millions before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat estimate included multiple sources. We later learned several transfers were linked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Marcus steals maybe forty million, prepares twenty million to run through a corporation in my name, leaves two hundred thousand in another account tied to me, then disappears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat isn\u2019t random.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a frame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLikely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why am I walking around without protection?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the twenty-million transfer never executed. The smaller account was traced as fraudulent. There\u2019s no evidence Voss personally believes you took anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds\u2019s jaw tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you hate that phrase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m starting to hate every phrase you use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He let that pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Sarah say about Voss?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wouldn\u2019t give me his name. She said Marcus stole from someone the organization feared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat fits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t she tell you at sentencing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe may have believed giving us Voss would make you more visible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what she implied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds sat back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s another possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe may have been protecting leverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeaning information?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor herself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I shook my head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I start believing one thing about her, you give me another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s because people aren\u2019t evidence exhibits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was an unexpectedly human sentence from him.<\/p>\n<p>I sat again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think she loved me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds looked uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not my department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. But you watched us. You listened to her calls. You read messages I never saw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He rubbed one hand over his jaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think she made choices that put you in danger. I also think she made later choices because she did not want you harmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat isn\u2019t the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she ever tell Marcus to use my identity?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot that we found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she know he had?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I raised a hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t say it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pulled another document from the folder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis may matter more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn encrypted message recovered from one of Marcus\u2019s accounts. We couldn\u2019t attribute it when the case was active. Newer analytical tools helped reconstruct part of the metadata.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho sent it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe Marcus sent it to an unknown recipient two days before the traffic stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I read the recovered line.<\/p>\n<p>PACKAGE WILL POINT HOME. WIFE STAYS CLEAN ENOUGH TO TALK.<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPackage means money?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHome means me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLikely your household identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd \u2018clean enough to talk\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarcus may have intended Sarah to survive long enough to draw investigative attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I looked like the financial beneficiary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room grew very quiet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wasn\u2019t just framing me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was designing the story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds nodded.<\/p>\n<p>The sophistication of it bothered me more than the money.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus had not merely stolen.<\/p>\n<p>He had built an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah\u2014the known financial operator.<\/p>\n<p>Me\u2014the clean husband suddenly attached to enormous hidden transfers.<\/p>\n<p>A marriage that would look, from the outside, like partnership rather than deception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe used the truth,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knew Sarah really was involved in crime. He knew I really was her husband. He only needed to add enough fake evidence to make the obvious conclusion wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s often how good framing works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t sound impressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked again at the message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to Vale?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I knew, we wouldn\u2019t be having this conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs he alive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah thinks so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah has reasons to fear him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo do I now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That simple agreement chilled me more than reassurance would have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do I do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the moment? Nothing different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou told me that before Sarah\u2019s arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI nearly became the financial corpse in someone else\u2019s escape plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a low bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurvival often is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Voss believes Marcus stole the money, why hasn\u2019t he found him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe he has.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I went still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarcus disappeared. That doesn\u2019t mean he successfully escaped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think Voss killed him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why are we still discussing risk?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we don\u2019t know who recovered what, which records survived, or what story Marcus left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeaning even dead, he could still point people at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That night I checked the locks on my apartment twice.<\/p>\n<p>Then I hated myself for checking them again.<\/p>\n<p>I had deliberately chosen a building with security, cameras, controlled access, and neighbors who cared about one another. Until that evening, those things had made me feel sensible.<\/p>\n<p>Now they felt temporary.<\/p>\n<p>I slept badly.<\/p>\n<p>At three in the morning, a truck idled outside for five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I stood in the dark behind my blinds, watching it.<\/p>\n<p>Delivery vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>At four, I laughed at myself.<\/p>\n<p>At seven, Reynolds called.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found another layer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sat on the edge of my bed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat phrase should be illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe corporation created in your name wasn\u2019t only intended to receive stolen money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt owned a warehouse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never owned a warehouse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was in it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently? Nothing. It was abandoned years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack then?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re checking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it have to do with Voss?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe property had previously been leased by a shipping company connected to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Marcus creates a company in my name, attaches it to a warehouse connected to the man he stole from, then prepares to send money through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was tying every thread together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the theft would look internal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and Sarah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLikely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I walked toward the window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat would Voss do if he believed that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds did not answer immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot call the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was enough.<\/p>\n<p>I met Reynolds two days later at the warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted I stay outside the perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>The building sat in an industrial strip near a freight yard, its brick walls stained by decades of exhaust. Weeds had grown through cracks in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was mine?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A federal property investigator joined us and explained the ownership chain.<\/p>\n<p>The corporation bearing my forged signature had acquired the warehouse six weeks before the traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>Six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Before Marcus appeared at my home.<\/p>\n<p>Before Sarah began visibly unraveling.<\/p>\n<p>Before the stolen funds moved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was planned early,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow long had Marcus intended to use me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the loading bays.<\/p>\n<p>One still bore faded numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Dock 4.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator mentioned that an old tenant had abandoned storage equipment and several sealed records boxes years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere they searched?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time of the original case? Briefly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything found?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing obviously relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds heard the tone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They entered without me.<\/p>\n<p>I waited outside nearly two hours.<\/p>\n<p>A train passed behind the warehouses, metal wheels screaming against the rails.<\/p>\n<p>When Reynolds finally returned, he carried an evidence bag.<\/p>\n<p>Inside was a small metal key.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFound behind an electrical panel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it open?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was a number stamped into the head.<\/p>\n<p>417.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould be a locker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould be anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator emerged carrying a dusty plastic folder.<\/p>\n<p>Inside were photocopied shipping manifests.<\/p>\n<p>One name appeared repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>AV Logistics.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Voss.<\/p>\n<p>Another document listed the corporate owner of the warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>My forged name.<\/p>\n<p>Between them, on one handwritten inventory sheet, was a notation:<\/p>\n<p>M.V. \u2014 417 \u2014 PERSONAL.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Vale.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the key again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour-seventeen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis may belong to whatever he labeled personal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to determine that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought about the Montreal property.<\/p>\n<p>Fake identities.<\/p>\n<p>Travel routes.<\/p>\n<p>Storage.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus had planned with the patience of someone who expected betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if 417 is still active?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll check financial institutions, storage facilities, transit lockers, private vault services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat could take forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot necessarily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds turned the key inside the evidence bag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause there\u2019s one facility connected to both the warehouse and Marcus\u2019s alias records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the train terminal twenty minutes from here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lockers there had long since been replaced, but archived rental records survived.<\/p>\n<p>Locker 417 had not been an ordinary coin-operated compartment.<\/p>\n<p>It was a private freight-storage unit.<\/p>\n<p>The rental name was Daniel Mercer.<\/p>\n<p>My fake roofer.<\/p>\n<p>The irony no longer felt funny.<\/p>\n<p>Records showed the unit had remained paid six years in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody had opened it since shortly before Sarah\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>A court order took less time than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>I was not allowed inside when agents opened it.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds showed me photographs afterward.<\/p>\n<p>No cash.<\/p>\n<p>No weapons.<\/p>\n<p>No passport bundle.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the locker contained two hard drives, a sealed envelope, a cheap prepaid phone with the battery removed, and a small ledger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarcus left records,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooks that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInsurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgainst Voss?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgainst everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you read the drives?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the photograph of the envelope.<\/p>\n<p>There was writing on it.<\/p>\n<p>One name.<\/p>\n<p>Mine.<\/p>\n<p>My actual name.<\/p>\n<p>Not a forged corporate variation.<\/p>\n<p>Not initials.<\/p>\n<p>My name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpen it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. Open it now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds studied me.<\/p>\n<p>Then he put on gloves.<\/p>\n<p>The envelope had already been logged and cleared for examination.<\/p>\n<p>Inside were four photographs.<\/p>\n<p>The first showed Sarah entering our house.<\/p>\n<p>The second showed me leaving for work.<\/p>\n<p>The third showed my car outside a grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth made me stop breathing.<\/p>\n<p>It showed me standing beside my father\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n<p>The date on the back was two years before the traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus had been watching me that long.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a handwritten note.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds read it silently.<\/p>\n<p>His face changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He handed it to me.<\/p>\n<p>The handwriting was cramped.<\/p>\n<p>HUSBAND DOESN\u2019T KNOW. THAT MAKES HIM USEFUL.<\/p>\n<p>Underneath was another sentence.<\/p>\n<p>IF SHE BREAKS, HE BECOMES THE STORY.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was building this for two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooks like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I read the second line again.<\/p>\n<p>If she breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning Marcus had anticipated Sarah turning away long before she admitted it.<\/p>\n<p>He had watched her attachment to me grow and converted it into contingency planning.<\/p>\n<p>I felt suddenly exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat else is on the drives?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis time, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, Reynolds called after midnight.<\/p>\n<p>I answered on the first ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decrypted one drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you find?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA video.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarcus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stood beside my bed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlive when?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecorded the night before your traffic stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My skin prickled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does he say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe talks about the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe says that if anything happens to him, the records will make it appear you and Sarah arranged the theft together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I gripped the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds\u2019s voice changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe names the person he believed would come looking for the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I went still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone Marcus was more afraid of than Voss.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=29770\">Click here to continue reading: PART 10: Marcus Vale\u2019s Final Recording Named a Woman No One Had Suspected, and Sarah Recognized Her Before Reynolds Finished Speaking<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not leave the prison immediately. 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