Chapter 8 - MY BROTHER HAD SUSPECTED PARKER FOR MONTHSI was furious with Dean too.
“You knew?”
“Not about the pool.”
“About the insurance.”
“Yes.”
“How long?”
“Three weeks.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
He looked down.
“I was verifying.”
I almost screamed.
Then stopped.
Because verification mattered.
Still—
I was his sister.
“I had a right to know.”
“Yes.”
Good.
No defense.
Dean had found a reference to a policy while reviewing trust exposure.
Then forged transfers.
He hired forensic accountants.
He planned to tell me at the party because he knew Parker would be there and wanted counsel nearby afterward.
Bad choice.
He admitted it.
“I thought public setting meant you’d be safer.”
I looked at him.
“It almost became the place I died.”
His face broke.
“Yes.”
No fake comfort.
No:
You couldn’t have known.
He could not have known exactly.
But he had information affecting my safety.
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He should have told me earlier.
That became his burden to own.
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