{"id":9829,"date":"2026-09-12T16:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=9829"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:59:14","slug":"part-5-christmas-morning-brought-a-police-interview-a-hidden-account-and-proof-that-someone-had-used-my-illness-as-an-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=9829","title":{"rendered":"PART 5 \u2013 Christmas Morning Brought a Police Interview, a Hidden Account, and Proof That Someone Had Used My Illness as an Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I tried. At two in the morning, I turned off the Christmas tree, carried the papers from the dining table into my office, and lay down fully dressed on top of the bedspread. Twenty minutes later I was upright again, staring at the ceiling while every careless decision I had made over the previous three years rearranged itself into something darker.<\/p>\n<p>At three, I checked the locks.<\/p>\n<p>At four, I made coffee I did not drink.<\/p>\n<p>At five-thirty, I stood at the kitchen window and watched Christmas morning arrive over a street lined with wreaths and sleeping houses.<\/p>\n<p>My phone remained beside me.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb had sent one final message shortly after midnight.<\/p>\n<p>The children are safe. Police are here. I\u2019m staying somewhere else tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I had typed several responses and deleted them all.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I sent only one.<\/p>\n<p>Tell the truth. All of it.<\/p>\n<p>At seven-fifteen, Daniel called.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMerry Christmas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The words sounded almost absurd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to someone I know at the county office. Nothing involving your deed has been recorded, and I asked them to flag any unusual filing connected with the property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan they do that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can be alert. It isn\u2019t a magical block, but we\u2019re putting people on notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I leaned against the counter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about the trust?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll deal with that formally. Today I\u2019m more concerned with preserving evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police officer told me to bring everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes. Do not bring originals unless we have copies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked toward the office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think they may have forged more than the will amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we should assume we have not found everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sentence stayed with me.<\/p>\n<p>At nine, I drove to the police station.<\/p>\n<p>The roads were thinly covered with old snow, and Christmas music played softly on the radio until I turned it off. Every familiar song felt indecently cheerful. Families were waking to presents. Children were tearing paper. People were complaining about overcooked breakfasts.<\/p>\n<p>I was carrying a folder documenting the possible theft of my home.<\/p>\n<p>The officer who met me was named Sergeant Laura Kemp. She was perhaps ten years younger than I was, with close-cropped dark hair and a manner that was neither warm nor cold. She led me into a small interview room and asked permission to record our conversation.<\/p>\n<p>I agreed.<\/p>\n<p>For the next hour, I told the story again.<\/p>\n<p>This time without emotion where I could manage it.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb and Sloan moving in.<\/p>\n<p>My hospitalization.<\/p>\n<p>The equity withdrawals.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed house sale.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The forged signature.<\/p>\n<p>The trust.<\/p>\n<p>The witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The emails.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp stopped me there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou believe the vacation is connected?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy mention it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause they deliberately got me out of their plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey left you home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s different from getting you out of the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kemp studied her notes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut your daughter-in-law had discussed getting you out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to my son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you interpret that as removing you from the property?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what she meant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the correct answer if you don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I appreciated that.<\/p>\n<p>She was not asking me to build a theory.<\/p>\n<p>She was asking me to separate facts from fear.<\/p>\n<p>Then she asked the question I had been dreading.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did your son know your banking password?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause years ago I asked him for help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he have permission to access the account while you were hospitalized?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly to check whether bills were paid. Not to transfer money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Sloan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you explicitly tell Caleb he could share the password with her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe says he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kemp made another note.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you believe your son participated in the withdrawals?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you believe him when he says he didn\u2019t?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat wasn\u2019t my question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked down at my hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood. Keep saying that until evidence answers it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the interview, she copied the photographs Caleb had sent me.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the emails were fragments rather than complete conversations. Some contained no names. Others showed Sloan\u2019s account communicating with her father, Victor Hale.<\/p>\n<p>One message, sent during my hospitalization, read:<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s still weak. Caleb has access.<\/p>\n<p>Another said:<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t move everything at once.<\/p>\n<p>Another:<\/p>\n<p>If she asks later, he can say he was paying expenses.<\/p>\n<p>My throat tightened when Kemp read that one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat appears important,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I showed her another photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Victor had written:<\/p>\n<p>Once the property is liquid, nobody can undo the distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Sloan\u2019s reply:<\/p>\n<p>First we need her signature.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you recognize the date?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I did.<\/p>\n<p>It was eleven days after I left the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The same week Sloan had brought me tea every afternoon because she said I still looked pale.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered lying beneath a blanket on the sofa while she moved around my kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered thanking her.<\/p>\n<p>The memory made my stomach turn.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp asked, \u201cDo you know whether anyone asked you to sign documents around that time?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought carefully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInsurance forms, maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho gave them to you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSloan brought me a few things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind of things?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t read everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kemp looked up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI trusted her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That answer sounded small in the recorded room.<\/p>\n<p>When the interview ended, she told me not to confront Sloan or her parents and not to destroy or alter anything connected to the accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould I change the locks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That surprised me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think they\u2019ll come back?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey live there, correct?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have been living there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen legally the occupancy issue may be more complicated than changing a lock and declaring them gone. Speak with Daniel about that. But from a safety standpoint, change access codes and secure your personal documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I drove home with a list.<\/p>\n<p>New door locks.<\/p>\n<p>New alarm codes.<\/p>\n<p>New garage code.<\/p>\n<p>Document storage.<\/p>\n<p>Credit freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Bank fraud affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Property records.<\/p>\n<p>Insurance records.<\/p>\n<p>Computer backups.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas had become administrative.<\/p>\n<p>At eleven-thirty, Caleb called.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we talk?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you alone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA motel about twenty minutes from the lodge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe children?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Sloan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I disliked that answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere the police satisfied they were safe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes. Sloan calmed down. The kids were asleep. They said there wasn\u2019t a basis to remove them from her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd your wallet?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour phone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour laptop?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He sounded exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom, there\u2019s something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course there is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found a bank statement on the laptop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat bank?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t recognize it. Harbor Federal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sat down at the kitchen table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhose name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the strange part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He inhaled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an account under an LLC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat LLC?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHale Residential Services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor Hale.<\/p>\n<p>Sloan\u2019s father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that have to do with me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are deposits that match some of the transfers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My hand tightened around the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can see two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmounts?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen thousand and ten thousand nine hundred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last two equity withdrawals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSend screenshots to Daniel and Sergeant Kemp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t send them to me first. Preserve the original files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom, I need to ask you something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you were sick, did you ever tell Sloan she could borrow money?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven temporarily?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you tell her Dad\u2014Victor\u2014could invest anything for you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A long silence followed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His voice had changed.<\/p>\n<p>Not frightened now.<\/p>\n<p>Ashamed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she tell you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat you agreed to help us eventually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My heart sank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe never gave a number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaleb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said you wanted the grandchildren secure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat sounds like something I might say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that made it easier to believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the kitchen wall.<\/p>\n<p>This was how manipulation worked best.<\/p>\n<p>Not with completely invented stories.<\/p>\n<p>With familiar truths bent just enough.<\/p>\n<p>I did want my grandchildren secure.<\/p>\n<p>I had helped Caleb repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>I had said the house would probably be his someday.<\/p>\n<p>I had never said they could take money now.<\/p>\n<p>I had never said Sloan\u2019s father could create a trust.<\/p>\n<p>I had never signed away control of anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Sloan ever tell you she had already taken money?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she ever tell you she had access to my account?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said she was helping with bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou gave her my password.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you give her my security questions?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went quiet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaleb?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI might have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer exhausted me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you were hospitalized, one of the bank sites asked questions. She called me because she couldn\u2019t get in. I told her things I knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother\u2019s maiden name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first school?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy old phone number?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I pressed two fingers to my forehead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou gave someone enough information to impersonate me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re forty-one years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. Stop saying that as though knowing afterward fixes anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went silent.<\/p>\n<p>I immediately regretted the sharpness, but not the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat matters now is what you do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m giving the police everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He drew a breath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s another thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I almost laughed from fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSloan had a folder on the laptop called Downsizing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I felt cold again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s in it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse listings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re all small condos or senior communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenior communities?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sixty-three.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI work three days a week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not disabled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why would she\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Because it was not about what I needed.<\/p>\n<p>It was about where they needed me to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere any places contacted?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My voice became quieter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least three.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy Sloan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing whose name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I had to sit down again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she pretend to be me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know. The inquiry forms have your information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting five months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five months.<\/p>\n<p>Before my hospitalization.<\/p>\n<p>Before the equity withdrawals.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Christmas trip.<\/p>\n<p>This had not begun with an opportunity created by illness.<\/p>\n<p>The illness had merely made the opportunity better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaleb, send everything to Daniel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen make copies somewhere Sloan cannot access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI already did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That answer surprised me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCloud storage under a new password.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was learning.<\/p>\n<p>Far too late, but learning.<\/p>\n<p>Before we ended the call, he asked, \u201cDo you hate me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked toward the hallway where photographs of him as a child still hung.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t blame you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHate would be easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He made a faint sound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means I love you and I don\u2019t trust you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither of us spoke for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Then he whispered, \u201cI understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After we hung up, I called a locksmith.<\/p>\n<p>A man named Owen agreed to come that afternoon, holiday fee included.<\/p>\n<p>While I waited, I began moving my important records into a locking metal file box.<\/p>\n<p>Passport.<\/p>\n<p>Birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Deed.<\/p>\n<p>Insurance policies.<\/p>\n<p>Tax records.<\/p>\n<p>My husband\u2019s death certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Retirement statements.<\/p>\n<p>As I emptied the bottom drawer of my desk, I found an envelope I did not recognize.<\/p>\n<p>It was plain white and unsealed.<\/p>\n<p>Inside were photocopies.<\/p>\n<p>My driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>My Social Security card.<\/p>\n<p>The first page of my passport.<\/p>\n<p>A property tax statement.<\/p>\n<p>And beneath them, a handwritten list.<\/p>\n<p>BANK LOGIN.<\/p>\n<p>EMAIL.<\/p>\n<p>MORTGAGE.<\/p>\n<p>INSURANCE.<\/p>\n<p>Under each heading were partial notes about usernames and security answers.<\/p>\n<p>The handwriting was Sloan\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>I knew because she wrote her sevens with a line through the middle.<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of the page were three words.<\/p>\n<p>Need before transfer.<\/p>\n<p>I stood motionless beside the desk.<\/p>\n<p>Then I called Sergeant Kemp.<\/p>\n<p>She answered quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA packet in my office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I described it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t touch anything else,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI already touched the envelope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s okay. Put it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does this mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll determine that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSergeant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was copying my identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was a pause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is what it appears to suggest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My front doorbell rang.<\/p>\n<p>I jumped.<\/p>\n<p>Then remembered the locksmith.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the camera before opening the door.<\/p>\n<p>It was Owen.<\/p>\n<p>I let him in.<\/p>\n<p>For the next hour, metal clicked and drilled while Christmas afternoon passed outside my windows.<\/p>\n<p>Every lock changed.<\/p>\n<p>Every code reset.<\/p>\n<p>Every point of entry became mine again.<\/p>\n<p>When Owen finished, he handed me the new keys.<\/p>\n<p>Five identical silver keys rested in my palm.<\/p>\n<p>I had given Caleb keys to this house twenty years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>I had given Sloan one the week they moved in.<\/p>\n<p>Now neither would work.<\/p>\n<p>The symbolism was not lost on me.<\/p>\n<p>At four-forty, Sergeant Kemp arrived with another officer and collected the envelope.<\/p>\n<p>She photographed where I had found it, asked more questions, and took the copies into evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving, she paused by the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs. Morgan, I want you to do something tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink about anywhere else they may have had access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy office?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I considered it.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy safe-deposit box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho can access it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho knows about it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaleb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd does he know where the key is?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked toward the bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kemp\u2019s expression tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFind out whether the key is still there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I went upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>The key was supposed to be in a small ceramic box inside my dresser.<\/p>\n<p>The box was there.<\/p>\n<p>The key was not.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=9830\">Click here to continue reading: PART 6: The Missing Safe-Deposit Key Led to a Bank Visit, a Second Forged Document, and a Secret Caleb Had Kept for Months<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not sleep. I tried. 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