Chapter 3 — The Secret Claire Never Told
Chapter 3 — The Secret Claire Never Told
Margaret's trembling hands covered her mouth.
"I bought that necklace for Claire's sixteenth birthday."
"There is no mistake."
Every guest turned toward Caleb.
Reporters weren't present.
But dozens of influential people were.
Every whispered conversation stopped.
Caleb looked at Nora.
"When did you meet Lily's father?"
Nora hesitated.
"Three years ago."
"At a coastal medical clinic."
"He introduced himself as Daniel."
"He said he had lost his family."
"He stayed only two months."
"Then he disappeared."
Caleb closed his eyes.
Daniel.
Claire had once mentioned a volunteer doctor with that name before disappearing herself.
No one had ever connected the pieces.
Margaret suddenly remembered something.
"Claire wasn't alone the night she vanished."
"There was a man."
"He called himself Daniel."
Caleb's jaw tightened.
"Find him."
His security chief nodded immediately.
Within minutes, every Whitmore investigator in Rhode Island began searching.
Meanwhile...
Sloane quietly slipped away.
No one noticed.
Except Arthur, Caleb's longtime attorney.
He watched her enter a private hallway.
Then quietly followed.
Halfway down the corridor...
He heard Sloane whisper into her phone.
"It happened."
"He recognized the child."
"We're out of time."
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Arthur stopped cold.
There was someone else involved.
