PART 3
What the Cameras Recorded
Colin returned the next morning, almost two days earlier than planned.
The driveway camera caught his black SUV at 6:21 a.m. Marjorie climbed out behind him, carrying an oversized leather bag and speaking rapidly.
Colin entered the house with the code that had rejected me.
Natalie stood beside me as we watched from her kitchen.
He rushed directly to the library, a room I had designed for books and quiet mornings before he converted half of it into a display case for business ventures that never seemed to exist beyond glossy folders.
He pulled at a lower cabinet.
Locked.
Marjorie appeared behind him.
“Find the blue file.”
“I don’t know where it is.”
“You told me you had everything ready.”
Colin threw several folders onto the rug.
“She wouldn’t sign.”
I stopped breathing.
Marjorie’s face tightened.
“All you had to do was get one signature before the baby arrived.”
Natalie whispered my name.
On the screen, Colin paced.
“Audrey has her own trust attorney. She checks everything.”
“Then you should have married someone less careful.”
For the first time, I understood that Marjorie had never merely disliked me.
She had studied me.
My assets.
My habits.
My weaknesses.
Then another person entered the room: Colin’s sister, Paige.
She stared at the scattered papers.
“Did Audrey find out about the trust?”
Everyone froze.
Paige covered her mouth too late.
Colin turned toward her.
“What exactly do you know?”
“Enough to know locking a woman outside three days after childbirth was a ridiculous idea.”
Marjorie snapped at her to be quiet, but Paige had already lost control.
“You were supposed to get the papers signed months ago. That was the whole plan.”
Moments later, federal agents entered the house.
The camera feed showed Colin stepping away from the documents while Marjorie stood rigid beside the desk.
Before the screen went dark, Colin looked directly toward the small camera above the bookshelf.
May you like
Then he said something I did not understand.
“Audrey still doesn’t know about the other girl.”
