{"id":9871,"date":"2026-09-12T17:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2026-09-12T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:42:28","slug":"part-6-patricia-denied-entering-my-bedroom-until-a-forgotten-security-system-recorded-the-one-visit-she-could-no-longer-explain-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=9871","title":{"rendered":"PART 6 \u2013 Patricia Denied Entering My Bedroom Until a Forgotten Security System Recorded the One Visit She Could No Longer Explain Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia recovered quickly.<\/p>\n<p>That was one of her talents.<\/p>\n<p>For several seconds after Daniel\u2019s question, fear had exposed her.<\/p>\n<p>Then the familiar composure returned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel did not react.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have never entered their bedroom when Angela was absent?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot that I remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is different from no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her attorney shifted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy client has answered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel looked at Patricia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m clarifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She folded her hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI may have gone upstairs during family gatherings. I don\u2019t keep records of every room I\u2019ve entered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you ever open Angela\u2019s dresser?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer jewelry box?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer purse?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you ever handle her driver\u2019s license?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you ever photograph it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia gave a short laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel waited.<\/p>\n<p>She stopped laughing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He moved on.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining questions produced little.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia admitted lending Elaine money.<\/p>\n<p>She admitted speaking with her frequently.<\/p>\n<p>She admitted Elaine had visited her home.<\/p>\n<p>She denied involvement in the bank withdrawals.<\/p>\n<p>She denied possessing my ring.<\/p>\n<p>She denied stealing identification.<\/p>\n<p>She denied knowing why Elaine had appeared in court.<\/p>\n<p>When the deposition ended, Patricia stood and buttoned her coat.<\/p>\n<p>As she passed me, she whispered, \u201cYou\u2019re destroying what\u2019s left of this family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I kept my voice low.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. I\u2019m finding out who already did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She walked away without answering.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, Daniel looked irritated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe lied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich part?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably several.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut can we prove it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The word yet mattered.<\/p>\n<p>We drove separately home.<\/p>\n<p>That night I went through the house again.<\/p>\n<p>Not searching for the ring.<\/p>\n<p>Searching for access.<\/p>\n<p>Who had keys?<\/p>\n<p>Brian.<\/p>\n<p>Me.<\/p>\n<p>A spare key had once been kept with Patricia during a vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Had she returned it?<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n<p>The locksmith had changed the front door two years earlier after the lock began sticking.<\/p>\n<p>We had given Patricia a new spare afterward because she sometimes fed our cat when we traveled.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the hook inside the pantry where extra keys were stored.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing told me whether she still had one.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered the alarm system.<\/p>\n<p>We rarely armed it during the day.<\/p>\n<p>But the system recorded door openings.<\/p>\n<p>At least I thought it did.<\/p>\n<p>We had installed it three years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The control panel had an app.<\/p>\n<p>I opened it.<\/p>\n<p>The recent history went back only thirty days.<\/p>\n<p>I called customer support.<\/p>\n<p>The technician explained that detailed event logs were stored for twelve months on our plan.<\/p>\n<p>My pulse jumped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I request them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re the account holder?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I gave the date range covering the months before the first withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The technician emailed a file twenty minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of entries.<\/p>\n<p>Front door open.<\/p>\n<p>Garage door open.<\/p>\n<p>System armed.<\/p>\n<p>System disarmed.<\/p>\n<p>Kitchen motion.<\/p>\n<p>I printed the pages and began highlighting.<\/p>\n<p>Most activity was easy to explain.<\/p>\n<p>My schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Brian\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>Then one afternoon stood out.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Two months before the first withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>I had been at work.<\/p>\n<p>Brian had been away at a training seminar.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:18 p.m., the front door opened.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:19 p.m., the system logged upstairs motion.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:47 p.m., the front door opened again.<\/p>\n<p>No alarm code had been entered because the system was not armed.<\/p>\n<p>Someone had been inside for twenty-nine minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I checked my calendar.<\/p>\n<p>No cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>No repair visit.<\/p>\n<p>No delivery.<\/p>\n<p>I called Brian.<\/p>\n<p>He answered after the fourth ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid anyone have permission to be at the house on March twelfth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarch twelfth. Around one in the afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were at the training seminar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was at the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are you asking?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe alarm log shows someone inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrian?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid your mother have a key then?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My heartbeat sharpened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe checked the mail sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t traveling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, Angela.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she come over that day?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His defensiveness was immediate.<\/p>\n<p>I ended the call.<\/p>\n<p>Then I searched my text messages with Patricia.<\/p>\n<p>March twelfth.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I searched messages with Brian.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:36 that afternoon, he had texted me:<\/p>\n<p>Mom says you\u2019re almost out of coffee. Want her to pick some up?<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the message.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered it now.<\/p>\n<p>I had answered:<\/p>\n<p>No, I\u2019ll get it tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>At the time I assumed Patricia had seen our coffee supply during a previous visit.<\/p>\n<p>Now there was only one reasonable explanation.<\/p>\n<p>She had been inside the house.<\/p>\n<p>I called Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>He answered on the first ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After I explained, he said, \u201cSend me everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I forwarded the alarm record and the old text.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel called again fifteen minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis contradicts her testimony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said she couldn\u2019t remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe first said no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we use it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe absolutely can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes it prove she opened my dresser?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut she was inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd she knew enough about what was in the kitchen to tell Brian we needed coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was walking through the house while neither of us was home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is what the evidence suggests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We subpoenaed additional information from the alarm provider.<\/p>\n<p>The system did not have indoor cameras.<\/p>\n<p>But our doorbell camera had existed then.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, clips were normally deleted after ninety days unless manually saved.<\/p>\n<p>I had saved almost nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Then the technician mentioned something I had forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Motion snapshots.<\/p>\n<p>Early versions of the system stored tiny still images whenever the doorbell detected movement, and those thumbnails sometimes remained in cloud archives longer than full video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you recover them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, Daniel received six thumbnails.<\/p>\n<p>They were low-resolution.<\/p>\n<p>But they were enough.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:16 p.m. on March twelfth, Patricia stood on my front porch.<\/p>\n<p>She held a key in one hand.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:48 p.m., she left.<\/p>\n<p>In the second image she carried something under her arm.<\/p>\n<p>A folder.<\/p>\n<p>Dark blue.<\/p>\n<p>I recognized it.<\/p>\n<p>My household records folder.<\/p>\n<p>It contained insurance documents, passport photocopies, tax papers and, at one point, a photocopy of my driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>When Daniel showed me the image enlarged on his screen, I felt numb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe took it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t prove what was inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe took the whole folder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe appears to be carrying it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would she take it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia\u2019s attorney received the supplemental evidence before we could request another deposition.<\/p>\n<p>He responded with a letter.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia now remembered visiting the house.<\/p>\n<p>She claimed Brian had asked her to retrieve paperwork related to an old vehicle registration.<\/p>\n<p>Brian denied that.<\/p>\n<p>Not privately.<\/p>\n<p>Under oath.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether he sent Patricia into our house on March twelfth, he said no.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you know she entered the residence?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you ask her to remove a blue document folder?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you receive one from her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you know she possessed a key?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you know she used it while you were away?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brian looked toward me after answering.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t tell whether he was ashamed or frightened.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps both.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel then showed him the old text.<\/p>\n<p>Mom says you\u2019re almost out of coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Brian read it twice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does this mean to you now?\u201d Daniel asked.<\/p>\n<p>Brian rubbed his forehead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means she must\u2019ve been there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she tell you why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you ask?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI probably assumed Angela had asked her to stop by.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I nearly spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel touched my wrist beneath the table.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted Brian\u2019s answer uninterrupted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you verify that with Angela?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid your mother often enter the house without permission?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she have a key?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you ever ask for it back?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel paused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brian looked exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause she\u2019s my mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sentence explained more than Brian intended.<\/p>\n<p>After the deposition, he followed me to the elevator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAngela.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I kept walking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor what part?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His face crumpled slightly.<\/p>\n<p>Not enough to make me forgive him.<\/p>\n<p>Enough to remind me he was human.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor not asking questions sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat isn\u2019t a small thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou accused me because questioning me was easier than questioning her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I pressed the elevator button.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was inside our house while both of us were gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe took my folder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy license copy was in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His face changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never asked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The elevator arrived.<\/p>\n<p>I stepped inside.<\/p>\n<p>Brian didn\u2019t follow.<\/p>\n<p>He just stood there while the doors closed.<\/p>\n<p>The police became much more interested after seeing the doorbell images.<\/p>\n<p>A detective named Lena Ortiz took over the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>She was patient, precise and almost impossible to read.<\/p>\n<p>She asked me to walk through everything again from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>The missing money.<\/p>\n<p>The ring.<\/p>\n<p>The license copy.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine.<\/p>\n<p>The teller identification.<\/p>\n<p>The alarm log.<\/p>\n<p>When I finished, Detective Ortiz asked, \u201cDoes Patricia have financial problems?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny debt?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGambling?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot that I\u2019m aware of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedical expenses?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone she supports financially?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElaine, apparently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople rarely commit complicated financial crimes without a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if the reason was me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatricia never liked me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDislike explains hostility. It doesn\u2019t usually explain a sixty-one-thousand-dollar fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless she wanted Brian to think I took it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat could be a secondary benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecondary?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere still has to be somewhere the money went.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That question had been obscured by everything else.<\/p>\n<p>Where was the cash?<\/p>\n<p>We had focused on who withdrew it.<\/p>\n<p>Not what happened afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Ortiz followed the money.<\/p>\n<p>The first breakthrough came from Elaine\u2019s landlord.<\/p>\n<p>During the same months as the withdrawals, Elaine had paid six months of overdue rent in cash.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly nine thousand dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Then she purchased a used car.<\/p>\n<p>Cash again.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven thousand.<\/p>\n<p>She also paid a private lender who had sued her two years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Seven thousand.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the amounts accounted for less than half the stolen money.<\/p>\n<p>But they established something important.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine had suddenly obtained cash.<\/p>\n<p>When Ortiz asked her where it came from, Elaine claimed she had sold jewelry inherited from an aunt.<\/p>\n<p>There was no record of the sale.<\/p>\n<p>No aunt matching the story.<\/p>\n<p>No deposit.<\/p>\n<p>No receipt.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure increased.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine hired an attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Then stopped answering questions.<\/p>\n<p>That was predictable.<\/p>\n<p>What happened next was not.<\/p>\n<p>One Thursday morning, I received a package at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>No return address.<\/p>\n<p>Inside was a small padded jewelry envelope.<\/p>\n<p>My hands began shaking before I opened it.<\/p>\n<p>The emerald ring lay inside.<\/p>\n<p>For several seconds I couldn\u2019t touch it.<\/p>\n<p>I just stared.<\/p>\n<p>The stone was unmistakable.<\/p>\n<p>So was the scratch along the gold.<\/p>\n<p>I turned it over.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the band, barely visible, was the engraving.<\/p>\n<p>Always.<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother\u2019s ring had come back.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath it was a folded piece of paper.<\/p>\n<p>One sentence.<\/p>\n<p>I never meant for this to go this far.<\/p>\n<p>No signature.<\/p>\n<p>I called Detective Ortiz immediately.<\/p>\n<p>She collected the package, envelope and note.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think Elaine sent it?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr Patricia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you tell from fingerprints?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll try.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three days later Ortiz called.<\/p>\n<p>There were partial prints.<\/p>\n<p>Most unusable.<\/p>\n<p>One print from the inner jewelry envelope was good enough for comparison.<\/p>\n<p>It did not belong to Patricia.<\/p>\n<p>It belonged to Elaine Porter.<\/p>\n<p>That should have felt like victory.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it left a larger question.<\/p>\n<p>If Elaine had the ring and impersonated me, what exactly had Patricia done?<\/p>\n<p>The answer began emerging through phone records.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-three calls between Patricia and Elaine.<\/p>\n<p>But Daniel requested location data too.<\/p>\n<p>Most calls were ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>Then he found three that occurred within minutes of the bank withdrawals.<\/p>\n<p>On the day of the first withdrawal, Patricia called Elaine eleven minutes before the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>On the day of the second, they spoke nine minutes afterward.<\/p>\n<p>On the third, Patricia called twice within an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidence was becoming mathematically embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the fourth withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The one made downtown.<\/p>\n<p>The one processed by a different teller.<\/p>\n<p>The one occurring while Brian was in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine\u2019s phone records showed something strange.<\/p>\n<p>She had not been near the downtown bank that day.<\/p>\n<p>Her phone remained at home.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Ortiz verified it twice.<\/p>\n<p>If Elaine had kept the phone while traveling, she was not the person who made the fourth withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>And Margaret Wilkes had only handled the first three.<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the map on Daniel\u2019s conference-room table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo there were two impostors?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho made the fourth withdrawal?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The downtown teller still worked at the bank.<\/p>\n<p>Her name was Jasmine Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the other branch, the downtown location had retained one archived surveillance still tied to the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>It was grainy.<\/p>\n<p>The woman wore a scarf, glasses and a winter coat.<\/p>\n<p>Her face was partly turned away.<\/p>\n<p>The image was not clear enough to identify her.<\/p>\n<p>But her hands were visible.<\/p>\n<p>She wore no emerald ring.<\/p>\n<p>And unlike Elaine, who was close to my height, this woman appeared shorter.<\/p>\n<p>Older.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel placed the still photograph beside a picture taken at Brian\u2019s birthday dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia stood beside me.<\/p>\n<p>Same approximate height.<\/p>\n<p>Same narrow shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>Same habit of carrying a large structured handbag against her left hip.<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the two images.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need the teller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jasmine Cole agreed to a formal interview.<\/p>\n<p>When shown photographs separately, she could not confidently identify anyone.<\/p>\n<p>But she remembered one unusual detail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe woman smelled like lilies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>That detail meant nothing to him.<\/p>\n<p>It meant everything to me.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia had worn the same perfume for as long as I had known her.<\/p>\n<p>White Lily No. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Brian bought it for her every Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly the fourth withdrawal no longer looked like part of Elaine\u2019s crime.<\/p>\n<p>It looked like Patricia had decided to do one herself.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=9872\">Click here to continue reading: PART 7: The Fourth Withdrawal Had Always Been Different, and Its Hidden Purpose Finally Explained Why Patricia Needed Brian to Suspect Me First<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia recovered quickly. That was one of her talents. For several seconds after Daniel\u2019s question, fear had exposed her. 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