CHAPTER 2 – The Hunt Begins… And Dirty Secrets Surface
Within twenty-four hours...
The Whitmore family was officially at war.
Daniel used the company's private investigators.
Michael bribed former employees.
Emily hacked into her father's private emails.
Nobody trusted anyone anymore.
Phone calls were secretly recorded.
Cars were followed through the city.
Bank accounts were investigated.
Old friendships were destroyed overnight.
Every clue led to another dead end.
Who was the mysterious person Richard Whitmore trusted more than his own children?
Then...
Daniel found something.
A payment of $10,000 every month for almost fifteen years.
The recipient?
A woman named Grace Harper.
No one in the family had ever heard that name.
Daniel smiled.
"I found her."
But before he could reach Grace...
Michael secretly copied Daniel's investigation files.
Emily hacked both of their phones.
Each sibling raced toward the same small coastal town.
When Daniel finally knocked on Grace Harper's modest house...
No one answered.
Only a frightened neighbor stepped outside.
"You're too late."
Daniel's heart sank.
"What do you mean?"
"Grace disappeared this morning."
"Where did she go?"
The old woman hesitated before handing him a small sealed envelope.
"She said if any Whitmore ever came looking..."
"...give them this."
Daniel tore it open immediately.
Inside was only a faded photograph.
It showed Richard Whitmore...
Standing beside a teenage girl no one recognized.
Written on the back, in Richard's own handwriting, were seven chilling words:
"The real heir was never one of you."
Daniel's hands began to shake.
At that exact moment...
His phone rang.
It was Michael.
His voice sounded terrified.
"Daniel..."
"I think someone just broke into Dad's private vault."
"And..."
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"...there's fresh blood on the floor."
TO BE CONTINUED...
