Chapter 10 - The Truth About Rachel
The midpoint of the case came from Rachel's old laptop.
Daniel recovered it from a storage company using information found in Thomas Pierce's archive.
Inside was an unsent email.
Rachel had written it the night before her death.
Christopher,
I need you to know something.
This was never about us.
It is bigger than us.
Your mother discovered I had copied the shipping ledgers.
She knows Thomas believes me.
If anything happens to me, protect Emma.
But don't protect her only because she is your daughter.
Protect her because she is the last person they can use to keep you obedient.
Christopher stopped reading.
Naomi continued for him.
Rachel had attached financial records.
One file revealed why the family had been so desperate.
Estelle had diverted nearly $180 million over twelve years.
Not all for herself.
Some had been used to secretly purchase voting positions through proxies.
She had been building personal control over Pierce Global with company money.
If exposed, she could lose everything.
Emma's enhanced trust shares threatened that control.
Rachel's evidence threatened her freedom.
The inheritance had never been the whole story.
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It was the lock.
Rachel's records were the key.
