that made it more valuable.
But the cameras held an even worse surprise for them.
Madison had looked directly into one lens and said clearly,
“Once Claire gets the insurance money, Mom can force her to hand it over.”
Lena replayed the sentence for the detective.
He raised an eyebrow.
“That helps establish motive.”
That silence told me more than words.
I looked at the frozen image of my sister smiling in my ruined kitchen.
“Good,” I said. “Because I’m done protecting them.”
The confrontation happened six days later in
