Chapter 9 - HARRISON HOLLOWAY’S LAST LEDGERGrant’s father had left a private handwritten ledger.
Rachel found it in a locked cabinet after investigators obtained access.
It recorded transfers.
Not ordinary corporate accounting.
Personal notes.
Payments to Celeste.
Payments to Dr. Reed.
Payments to Samuel Price.
And one transfer six days after Laurel’s disappearance:
$3.8 million to Redwood Recovery Holdings LLC.
Nobody recognized it.
Investigators traced the entity to a private neurological rehabilitation center in Maine.
Closed two years earlier.
Grant’s blood turned cold.
Patient archives had been transferred.
One admission from November 15 matched:
Female.
Early thirties.
Head injury.
No government ID provided.
Admitted under the name:
Laura Reed.
Emergency contact:
H. Holloway.
Grant nearly collapsed.
Was it Laurel?
The medical description matched her height.
Weight.
Approximate age.
Head injury consistent with crash.
The patient stayed eleven weeks.
Then discharged.
To whom?
Records listed:
Private family transport.
Destination unknown.
Grant stared at Detective Chen.
“She lived.”
Chen remained careful.
“The evidence strongly suggests a woman matching Laurel was treated there.”
“But no DNA.”
“Not yet.”
Grant nodded.
Facts.
Only facts.
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But hope had entered the room.
And hope was almost unbearable.
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