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Chapter 21 - The hunting cabin

Police found evidence at Voss’s hunting cabin.

Not Emily.

Not Natalie.

Evidence.

Two women’s hair profiles.

Food packaging.

A prescription bottle bearing Emily’s name.

Blankets.

Duct tape matching the brand found in the Hale basement.

A notebook page in Emily’s handwriting:

Claire knows the blue folder.

I did not.

Not yet.

Then I remembered something.

Emily gave me a blue accordion folder three months before her disappearance.

“Old insurance stuff.”

I put it in my garage cabinet.

Never opened it.

Police did.

Inside:

Copies of Northcross invoices.

Bank-transfer records.

Emails between Voss and Richard.

And one handwritten note:

May you like

If anything happens to me, do not believe Richard if he says I was confused.

I sat on my garage floor and cried until Ortiz took the folder away.

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