I bought an antique mirror at a Newport flea market, but my reflection stopped moving and wrote "Save me" in blood—uncovering my cousin's $18M old-money crime.
👉 Previous Decision: You chose to refuse Aunt Evelyn’s offer, knowing the value of the document you possessed.
Marcus, ever the scientist, didn’t rest. Back at the lab, he painstakingly extracted minute skin particles trapped beneath the mirror’s intricate silvering layer – a relic from its original construction.
“These were sealed in place decades ago,” he explained, peering through a microscope. “Before any modern contamination.”
The DNA results arrived two days later, confirming his suspicions. “A direct maternal match to Genevieve Montclair,” Marcus announced, holding up the lab report. “The ancestor who vanished in 1954. She was clearly in very close contact with the glass.”
His finger then traced a signature on a faded probate transfer document from 1954 that we’d found in an old Montclair family archive. “Thaddeus Gable’s notarized signature. This is the fraudulent transfer that gave Julian’s family the entire fortune, disinheriting Genevieve.”
The pieces were falling into place. Genevieve, the mirror, the codicil, Gable’s complicity. All connected.
Suddenly, Marcus’s phone buzzed with an urgent notification. “Thermal perimeter alert,” he murmured, staring at a security feed on a secondary monitor. “Julian’s private investigators. They’ve found the lab.”
Outside, the tell-tale gleam of dark SUVs reflected in the security camera feed. They were surrounding the building, closing in. Our window of secrecy was slamming shut.
Choose your next action
Leak the DNA results immediately to a national investigative journalist. — Read CHAPTER 9 to continue
Confront Thaddeus Gable directly at his private estate office with the evidence. — Read CHAPTER 10 to continue
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