Despite everything, Michael laughed.
Then Lily’s expression turned serious.
“The thirty million dollars is real. Jason helped move it, but he wasn’t the person who created the scheme.”
She explained that she’d traced the money and recovered substantial amounts into legally protected arrangements.
Then she revealed something worse.
“Someone inside our family was helping Jason.” PlanFamily Trips
My father looked stunned.
Lily instructed us to examine the old blue room.
Michael remembered that she’d meant the attic, which Grandpa had painted blue when we were children.
We hurried upstairs.
Behind a row of books, we discovered a folder containing photographs, transfers, and emails.
One picture showed Rachel standing beside my father.
I looked up sharply.
“Dad, you knew Rachel?”
Before he could respond, Rachel appeared in the doorway with federal agents.
She held an envelope.
“Your father hired me eleven years ago,” she said.
Michael froze.
