PART 2: At two in the morning, I caught a six-year-old girl cleaning my private study with a baby strapped to her back because she was terrified her mother would lose her job and leave them homeless

I almost dismissed it.

Then I remembered the hidden room.

The surveillance equipment.

The concealed exit.

“What did he mean?”

“He wouldn’t explain. He just told me never to go back.”

“But you did.”

“After Daniel died.”

“How?”

Grace looked down at her hands.

“Car accident.”

There was no drama in the way she said it.