Chapter 9 - Sarah’s Voice

I listened to my dead wife’s voice before the jet had fully stopped.

Nathan sent the audio file while we were still taxiing.

Sarah sounded tired.

“Hey, Nate. It’s me. Don’t call Ethan yet. I might be overreacting. I found copies of documents in the study that shouldn’t be there. Trust papers. Insurance records. Henry’s passport application. Someone has been opening things that were locked.”

A faint sound came in the background.

A door.

Sarah’s voice dropped.

“I have to go.”

The message ended.

I played it again.

Then a third time.

Three years earlier, Sarah had died when her SUV left a rain-slick road and struck a concrete barrier.

Police called it an accident.

So did the insurance company.

So did I.

Because grief had made me grateful for any answer that did not require another question.

Lena stood near the cabin door.

“Ethan.”

“I heard it.”

“There was a sound behind her.”

“I know.”

“No. Listen again.”

She raised the volume.

The door opened.

Then, barely audible, a man said one word.

“Sarah?”

I knew the voice.

Caleb.

My stomach turned.

The plane door opened.

Detective Torres waited on the tarmac with two officers.

I stepped down into cold night air.

“Hospital first,” I said.

“We need ten minutes.”

“My son is in a hospital.”

“And the man who tried to get into his room may still be nearby. We’ve locked the floor down.”

I stopped.

Torres held out an evidence bag.

Inside was a small black device.

“What is that?”

“GPS tracker.”

“Where did you find it?”

“Under your car at the airport.”

I looked toward the black sedan waiting for me.

“How long has it been there?”

“We don’t know yet.”

Torres studied me.

“Mr. Cole, this may be bigger than what happened today.”

“No kidding.”

“We also pulled traffic footage from the road where your wife died.”

My body went still.

“You reopened Sarah’s accident?”

“Not officially.”

“Then why?”

“Because Caleb’s second phone contained a photograph of her crash site.”

I felt the world tilt.

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Torres continued.

“The photo was taken twenty-three minutes before police arrived.”