Chapter 6 - The Letter F.
Faith had believed the necklace belonged to her mother.
She had worn it since the week of the funeral, when she found it inside a velvet pouch labeled for my daughter.
Now Evelyn claimed it as if it were stolen property.
Connor confronted his mother outside the boardroom.
"What does the necklace have to do with you?"
Evelyn refused to answer while cameras and employees crowded the hallway.
Faith later searched her mother's storage boxes again.
Beneath old recipes, she found a photograph of Evelyn standing beside Faith's mother, Laura Morgan, at a charity banquet twenty-eight years earlier.
Both women were young.
Both wore matching silver pendants.
Evelyn's carried an E.
Laura's carried the F now resting at Faith's throat.
On the back, Laura had written two words.
FORGIVE EVELYN.
Connor stared at the photograph.
"My mother told me she never knew yours."
Faith found another envelope sealed beneath the photograph.
The letter inside was addressed to Evelyn but had never been sent.
Laura wrote that she could no longer keep quiet about Green Harbor.
She described money meant for employee medical benefits being redirected after Connor's father's death.
She also wrote that she had protected a child from the consequences of Evelyn's worst decision.
The child's name was not included.
"Could she mean you?" Connor asked.
Faith shook her head.
"My birth certificate names both my parents."
Connor looked toward Noah's room.
Faith followed his gaze and immediately understood.
"No."
"I am not saying Noah is connected."
"Your mother already tried to turn his blank birth record into a weapon."
Connor apologized, but the question remained between them.
Daniel regained consciousness that evening.
He remembered the bitter taste of his coffee and Martin Vale standing near the service table.
He also remembered a routing number from the stolen documents.
Helen traced it to a private account opened in the name of Franklin Morgan.
Faith's father had died twelve years earlier.
"Someone used my father's identity," Faith said.
The account contained nearly three million dollars.
Every transfer had been approved with Evelyn's credentials.
Then a final document appeared in the bank file.
It was a beneficiary form signed by Laura Morgan.
The beneficiary was not Faith.
It was Connor Hale.
Faith read the name again as the room tilted around her.
Connor took a step backward.
If the signature was genuine, Laura had hidden a fortune for him.
If it was false, someone had built the entire scheme to make Faith look responsible.
Helen turned to the last page.
There, beside Laura's signature, was the imprint of the silver letter F.
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