Chapter 17 - The Warehouse

Police sealed the old records warehouse before midnight.

Rachel was ordered to stay in a command vehicle across the street.

This time, she did not argue.

Daniel sat beside her.

For several minutes, neither spoke.

Finally he said, "I should have told you everything the day I recognized your name."

Rachel watched red police lights move across the windshield.

"Yes."

"I thought silence would protect what we had."

"Silence protected the secret. Not us."

Daniel nodded.

"I know."

That was all he said.

No excuses.

No speech asking her to forgive him.

For the first time in days, Rachel felt something inside her unclench.

Gunfire was not heard. There were no dramatic crashes.

Instead, officers moved through the warehouse in tense silence.

Then Bell's radio cracked.

"One subject located. Male. Injured. Conscious."

David.

He had been found in an office with a cut above his eyebrow and one wrist zip-tied to a desk.

Marcus was gone.

The B-17 ledger lay open on the floor.

Rachel entered only after the building was cleared.

David looked smaller than she remembered.

"Rachel."

She stopped several feet away.

"Don't call me sweetheart."

He looked down.

"Marcus turned on me."

"You sound surprised."

"I can fix this."

"You used my identity."

"I never meant for you to be hurt."

Rachel stared at him.

"You stole people's information from Dad's company. You helped move money. You framed me before I was old enough to understand what a shell account was. And you think the problem is that I got hurt?"

David's mouth opened.

Nothing came out.

Bell picked up the ledger.

Several pages had been torn from the back.

"What was here?"

David looked toward the loading dock.

"The final account list. Marcus took it."

"Where is he going?"

David swallowed.

"Daniel's house."

Rachel's blood ran cold.

Daniel stepped forward. "Why?"

David looked at him.

"Because the missing pages don't just show where the stolen money went."

"What else?"

"They show who still has it."

Rachel understood first.

"The house."

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David nodded.

"Your house was purchased with clean money. But the land under it wasn't."