{"id":9017,"date":"2026-09-10T19:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2026-09-10T19:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:04:34","slug":"part-17-kendricks-escape-warning-revealed-samuels-final-trap-he-never-needed-richards-company-only-lincoln-to-inherit-its-hidden-liability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=9017","title":{"rendered":"PART 17 \u2013 Kendrick\u2019s Escape Warning Revealed Samuel\u2019s Final Trap: He Never Needed Richard\u2019s Company, Only Lincoln to Inherit Its Hidden Liability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For several seconds after Kendrick said Lincoln\u2019s name, the only sound inside the car was the tires moving over wet pavement.<\/p>\n<p>Richard twisted in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat secondary clause?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick\u2019s breathing came raggedly through the speaker. Wherever he was, something metallic rattled nearby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe succession clause Reed showed me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln leaned toward the phone. \u201cStart from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A pause.<\/p>\n<p>Then Kendrick said, \u201cSamuel knew Richard would eventually confess if enough evidence surfaced. He said guilt was the one lever Richard never learned to protect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told you that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told me plenty once he decided I was useful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not an address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbby, listen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His voice dropped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clause transfers temporary executive authority to Lincoln if Richard admits concealing a material criminal operation and the board determines immediate continuity is necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard swore quietly.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln looked at him. \u201cYou knew about that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot that wording.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou really should start reading your own family documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis instrument predates your adulthood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill not helping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick continued. \u201cSamuel doesn\u2019t want Lincoln to run Cross Global. He wants Lincoln to accept control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause acceptance makes him successor trustee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard went still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo which trust?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll legacy instruments attached to succession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The restitution trust.<\/p>\n<p>Project Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly accounts nobody had yet found.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln understood before I did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I accept control, I inherit fiduciary responsibility for the old structures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Samuel releases the hidden records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking it look like I assumed control knowing the liabilities existed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel had never needed to own Cross Global.<\/p>\n<p>He needed someone else standing in the doorway when the buried structure collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Richard said, \u201cThat would not erase Samuel\u2019s crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Kendrick replied. \u201cIt muddies everything. Civil claims, regulatory responsibility, trustee control. He creates years of litigation while whatever money he moved disappears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn leaned forward from the vehicle behind us; we had connected her into the call through Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere did Samuel move it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick went silent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKendrick?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen say it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe used the Cross restitution trust as collateral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard\u2019s face drained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot collateralize that trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can with forged trustee approvals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln closed his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Forgery had started this entire chain.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel had spent decades turning signatures into weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much?\u201d Richard asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout ninety million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Dad finally said from the rear vehicle, \u201cTo where?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral private credit structures. One is connected to Vale Executive Services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn whispered something I couldn\u2019t hear.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln asked, \u201cWhy involve you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was supposed to create a legitimate investment vehicle that could receive part of the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour fund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the fake Cross commitment wasn\u2019t only bait for investors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was supposed to make your fund look like a normal Cross-backed destination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick had still committed fraud.<\/p>\n<p>He had still lied.<\/p>\n<p>But Samuel had built the road and convinced him it led somewhere glamorous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Thomas think?\u201d Mom asked through Chelsea\u2019s connection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat he was recovering money Samuel stole from him twenty-two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Martin?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvelyn?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel thought she had the documentation necessary to challenge the trust transfers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln\u2019s voice sharpened. \u201cAnd Abby?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about my fianc\u00e9e?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was supposed to get married.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>That was enough.<\/p>\n<p>My marriage would identify Evelyn through the Mercer distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln\u2019s marriage would activate Cross succession review.<\/p>\n<p>Richard\u2019s confession would push Lincoln into temporary authority.<\/p>\n<p>Three legal triggers.<\/p>\n<p>One day.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel had arranged an administrative demolition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you?\u201d I asked again.<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick exhaled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe transport wasn\u2019t attacked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea spoke from the other line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her silence was terrible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou escaped federal custody?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI panicked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKendrick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard two agents discussing the board meeting. I knew what Samuel had planned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you ran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou absolute idiot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m aware.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It might have been the first accurate self-assessment Kendrick had offered all day.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln asked, \u201cDid anyone help you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did you get out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe transport stopped after one agent received an emergency call. Door wasn\u2019t secured properly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat sounds convenient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought so too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard looked at Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel wanted him loose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick heard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m supposed to go to the board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat Cross Global backed my fund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard shook his head. \u201cBut it didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel has documents saying it did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln said, \u201cAnd if Kendrick appears publicly carrying those documents after Richard confesses, the board sees an immediate institutional crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel had prepared both narratives.<\/p>\n<p>If Richard stayed silent, Samuel could expose him.<\/p>\n<p>If Richard confessed, Samuel could trigger succession.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Cross Global destabilized.<\/p>\n<p>Unless we refused the choices he had prepared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t go to the board meeting,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>Richard turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. He expects that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe board needs the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes. But not on his timetable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you thinking?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel keeps winning because everyone responds to the emergency directly in front of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dad had paid Thomas because his brother was desperate.<\/p>\n<p>Mom hid evidence because Dad was vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Richard concealed misconduct because the company might collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick forged documents because his fund needed credibility.<\/p>\n<p>Every choice felt urgent.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel built urgency and waited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stop reacting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard frowned. \u201cThe meeting is in less than an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCancel it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t simply\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln interrupted. \u201cYes, you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCall the directors individually. Tell them the meeting may involve compromised governance documents. Federal investigators already have the control ledger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn added over the phone, \u201cAnd ask the independent trustees to freeze every legacy instrument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard considered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat could work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will provoke litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I almost laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRichard, somebody burned down my sister\u2019s garage yesterday. Litigation has lost its ability to frighten me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln smiled faintly.<\/p>\n<p>Richard made the call.<\/p>\n<p>The board meeting was suspended at 7:11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:14, the independent trustees froze the restitution trust.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:18, Cross Global\u2019s general counsel\u2014someone other than Samuel\u2014issued a preservation order covering every legacy document.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:23, federal investigators located Kendrick.<\/p>\n<p>He had been hiding inside the maintenance room of a commuter rail station.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea did not ask us to rescue him.<\/p>\n<p>She asked whether he was alive.<\/p>\n<p>When told yes, she said, \u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then she hung up.<\/p>\n<p>The simplicity of it hurt.<\/p>\n<p>By eight, we were back at Richard\u2019s Boston residence, which federal investigators had converted into something between a family meeting and a temporary command center.<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick joined by secure video from custody.<\/p>\n<p>He looked exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea sat across from the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Neither spoke initially.<\/p>\n<p>Finally Kendrick said, \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s face remained still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor which part?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He had no answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what I thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She stood and left.<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick watched the empty chair.<\/p>\n<p>I almost felt sorry for him.<\/p>\n<p>Almost.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln sat beside Evelyn while investigators mapped Samuel\u2019s financial structures.<\/p>\n<p>The ninety million had not vanished.<\/p>\n<p>It had been divided.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-two million remained traceable in accounts controlled through Vale Executive Services.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-one million had moved into Kendrick\u2019s fund structures but had been frozen before disbursement.<\/p>\n<p>Another eighteen million sat inside offshore entities.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder was missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel has access credentials,\u201d Richard said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom custody?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe planned scheduled transfers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An investigator nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re stopping them as they surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn examined one account identifier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom where?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMartin\u2019s records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She pulled a notebook recovered separately from her house rather than the burned garage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis number belonged to Project Harbor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard leaned closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was it used for?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmergency relocation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf money?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room went silent.<\/p>\n<p>Project Harbor had maintained escape resources.<\/p>\n<p>False identities.<\/p>\n<p>Housing.<\/p>\n<p>Travel.<\/p>\n<p>Funds.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel had inherited all of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould he escape custody?\u201d Dad asked.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator answered cautiously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln said, \u201cThat isn\u2019t the same as no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>At nine thirty, Samuel\u2019s attorney requested a private meeting with federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>At ten twelve, he offered partial cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>At ten thirty-one, he demanded immunity on historical financial crimes in exchange for recovery of the missing trust assets.<\/p>\n<p>Richard laughed when told.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s negotiating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe always negotiates,\u201d Evelyn said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill they take it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot full immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does he know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough to make them listen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By noon, investigators recovered another eleven million.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel provided passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Account routes.<\/p>\n<p>Names.<\/p>\n<p>Then he stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does he want now?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor looked toward me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln answered before I did.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe says he will disclose the location of the original Project Harbor master archive only to Abigail Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe says you already know why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Then Mom whispered, \u201cBecause of the blue box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel believes you remember more than you do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. He knows Abby is the only person in this family who never benefited from the original concealment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dad looked down.<\/p>\n<p>Richard did too.<\/p>\n<p>Mom had hidden evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Dad had protected Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Richard had protected Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn had used the records as bait.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln was Cross\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea had unknowingly helped Kendrick.<\/p>\n<p>I had been ten.<\/p>\n<p>A child carrying a blue box into a garden.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel wanted a witness whose hands were clean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d Lincoln asked.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn understood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAuthentication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel needed me to confirm something.<\/p>\n<p>I agreed to meet him.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln objected for twelve straight minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I listened.<\/p>\n<p>Then went anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel sat behind reinforced glass in a federal interview room.<\/p>\n<p>No elegant suit now.<\/p>\n<p>No church.<\/p>\n<p>No armed associate.<\/p>\n<p>Just a pale shirt, tired eyes, and restraints.<\/p>\n<p>He picked up the telephone.<\/p>\n<p>I did the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look disappointed,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you remember the night Diana buried the box?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m finished letting you turn memory into a test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His smile faded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour mother did not take you directly home afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>A fragment surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>Car headlights.<\/p>\n<p>A building.<\/p>\n<p>Mom telling me to stay awake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere did we go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCross Atlantic Trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn\u2019s adoptive father\u2019s bank.<\/p>\n<p>My pulse accelerated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiana deposited something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe third copy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel leaned toward the glass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA letter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo whom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wrote me a letter when I was ten?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharles Warren.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn\u2019s adoptive father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wrote to me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Project Harbor had one final safeguard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel\u2019s eyes remained on mine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharles discovered what Richard\u2019s father was doing before anyone else. He created a sealed archive that could only be released when two named family lines voluntarily joined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I understood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCross and Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOriginally, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLincoln and me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were not named specifically. Descendants were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The marriage had significance older than Samuel\u2019s manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>He had discovered the clause and tried exploiting it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is the archive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour mother knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, she doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knew where Charles placed the release instruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe letter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did it say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never saw it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why do you care?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Richard\u2019s father spent the final years of his life trying to find it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel leaned back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMartin tried. Thomas tried. I tried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd failed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For once, he sounded almost amused by defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere did Mom put it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A bank lobby.<\/p>\n<p>A woman kneeling beside me.<\/p>\n<p>A red balloon.<\/p>\n<p>A brass wall of deposit boxes.<\/p>\n<p>And my own small hands holding an envelope.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered.<\/p>\n<p>Not where I put it.<\/p>\n<p>Who I gave it to.<\/p>\n<p>A man with gray hair.<\/p>\n<p>He had crouched so we were eye level.<\/p>\n<p>He gave me a piece of peppermint candy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was his name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel watched me.<\/p>\n<p>I whispered, \u201cMr. Warren.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charles Warren.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn\u2019s adoptive father.<\/p>\n<p>But Charles died when Evelyn was seventeen.<\/p>\n<p>Years before I was ten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel\u2019s expression changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharles Warren was already dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel stared.<\/p>\n<p>Then slowly, he smiled.<\/p>\n<p>Not triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor once, Abigail, you know something I don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=9018\">Click here to continue reading: PART 18: My Childhood Memory Identified the Man Who Pretended to Be Charles Warren, and His Real Name Finally Connected Every Secret Samuel Could Not Explain<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several seconds after Kendrick said Lincoln\u2019s name, the only sound inside the car was the tires moving over wet pavement. 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