Evelyn immediately called Robert, her voice tight with suppressed rage as she read him Arthur’s forum post.
“It’s a playbook, Dad,” she finished, her voice shaking. “He planned it.”
Robert listened, his silence heavy on the line. “I suspected as much,” he finally said, his own voice grim. “This confirms it.”
Fueled by Evelyn’s discovery, Robert redoubled his efforts on the Lakeview incident. He spent hours on the phone, leveraging old connections, making discreet inquiries. He had a contact, a retired librarian who used to work at the Cedar Creek Historical Society, a woman with an encyclopedic memory and a soft spot for Robert.
“There was a file, Robert,” the librarian confided in a hushed tone over the phone. “An anonymous submission from years ago, concerning Lakeview. It was sealed. Highly unusual. Not even the original archivists could access it without a specific court order, and even then, there were… roadblocks.”
Robert pressed her for details, but the librarian could only recall the unusual level of secrecy surrounding the document, and a brief, whispered rumor that “the Cheney family was very involved” in keeping it under wraps. Robert felt a prickle of suspicion. Eleanor’s hand, he thought. Always Eleanor.
He knew Eleanor’s influence, but this level of suppression for a decades-old, supposedly minor incident felt excessive. What critical information could possibly be hidden in this sealed document, and why was Eleanor so desperate to keep it secret for so long?
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