Richard's POV
At midnight, Richard sat in his hotel room with his laptop open. The article had just gone live.
He clicked the link. The headline loaded. THE VALENTINE CONSPIRACY: HOW A FAMILY STOLE AN HEIR.
His stomach dropped.
He started reading slowly at first, then faster. His eyes flew across the words. Names he recognized. Documents he had seen before. Audio recordings he had never heard.
Cosimo Reyes. The man his mother had worked with for years. The man Richard had hired as a consultant six months ago without knowing his connection to the kidnapping.
Victor Crane. The lawyer who had helped draft the Williams estate trust.
Gerald Piers. The same man who had forged the codicil.
All of them connected. All of them paid. All of them protected by people Richard had trusted.
He re
