{"id":13700,"date":"2026-10-07T16:36:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/?p=13700"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:36:45","slug":"part-15-janice-bells-husband-had-been-paid-to-watch-sarah-but-her-confession-revealed-robert-hale-had-trusted-the-wrong-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/?p=13700","title":{"rendered":"PART 15 \u2013 Janice Bell\u2019s Husband Had Been Paid to Watch Sarah, but Her Confession Revealed Robert Hale Had Trusted the Wrong Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Janice did not deny knowing about Bell Harbor Consulting.<\/p>\n<p>That was the first thing she said when Frank confronted her.<\/p>\n<p>We were in my living room.<\/p>\n<p>Leo had been sent upstairs with headphones and strict instructions not to come down until I called.<\/p>\n<p>Janice sat between Evelyn and Marisa, her hands folded so tightly the knuckles had gone white.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy husband created it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou told us you left nursing because your daughter was followed,\u201d Frank said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy whom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour husband worked for Whitmore security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t think that was relevant?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it would make you stop listening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>She was probably right.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel stood near the fireplace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was your husband\u2019s name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he know my father?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he know Sarah?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice\u2019s eyes filled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe watched her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn inhaled sharply.<\/p>\n<p>Janice looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not start there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas was assigned to surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy Charles?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe believed so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieved?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrders came through a supervisor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMartin Vale sometimes. Sometimes another manager.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas Thomas outside Sarah\u2019s clinic?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe black vehicle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My hands began trembling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou watched my daughter be terrified for months and never told me your husband was one of the people doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know at first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen did you find out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Leo was born.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConvenient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Thomas photograph Sarah?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photographs we had seen.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah leaving the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah crossing parking lots.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah living inside a cage she could sense but not prove.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did he say the purpose was?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDocumenting contacts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Daniel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith anyone connected to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s jaw tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father wanted to know who was helping her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially Robert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen did Thomas discover Robert was helping Sarah?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral weeks before delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did he do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReported it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo whom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis supervisor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cName?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGordon Pike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank wrote it down.<\/p>\n<p>I knew immediately from his expression that the name was new.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is Pike now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel asked, \u201cDid Thomas follow Robert after Sarah died?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Robert had taken documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarlan\u2019s documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Bell Harbor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice looked down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas created the company after leaving Whitmore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo do contract work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Harlan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s face hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo your husband went from spying for my father to working for the doctor who falsified my son\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>That phrase haunted everything.<\/p>\n<p>Not immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Not enough.<\/p>\n<p>Not until later.<\/p>\n<p>Every disaster had survived because knowledge arrived in pieces and people waited for certainty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen did you find out?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout a year after Sarah died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore Robert\u2019s accident?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank\u2019s voice sharpened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much before?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice looked sick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Thomas tell you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat Harlan was desperate to find Robert\u2019s copies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Thomas find them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he find Robert?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel stepped forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe night he died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one moved.<\/p>\n<p>I heard the refrigerator hum in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>Frank\u2019s voice became very controlled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJanice, I need you to be precise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She began crying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas followed Robert to a restaurant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one where he met Harlan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas Thomas inside?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. In the parking lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarlan left first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert came out about twenty minutes later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Thomas follow him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo Vermont?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened on the road?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice covered her mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s face went blank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid your husband kill Robert?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen say what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas lost him for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLost him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert turned onto a rural road. Thomas missed the turn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he found the road again, Robert\u2019s car was already off the shoulder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas Robert alive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer shocked everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he call emergency services?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert was conscious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe begged Thomas not to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat makes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert believed Harlan would know if police were involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank said, \u201cHe had just crashed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was confused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Thomas do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelped him out of the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert gave him something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My chest tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA packet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evidence?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Thomas take it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel moved toward her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou expect us to believe that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never saw it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen what happened to Robert?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice\u2019s face broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas left him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I could barely understand the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the road?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInjured?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert told him to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas he dying?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank asked, \u201cWhat did Thomas tell you when he came home?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat Robert was alive when he left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he ever go back?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he report the crash anonymously?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHours later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy then Robert was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel turned away.<\/p>\n<p>It was not murder.<\/p>\n<p>Not yet.<\/p>\n<p>But it was abandonment wrapped in fear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was in the packet?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told you, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Thomas do with it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe hid it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried to find it after he died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause by then I knew what Harlan had done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen did your husband die?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he tell you anything before?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said Robert trusted the wrong person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice wiped her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe meant himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That answer silenced us.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Bell had taken Robert\u2019s evidence and then kept it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarlan offered him money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s face hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sold it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot exactly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat exactly?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas told Harlan he destroyed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe showed me one page years later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat page?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA payment ledger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Charles to Harlan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome. Other payments too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther from whom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank leaned closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would Thomas lie to Harlan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInsurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone kept evidence to survive everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Harlan pay him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough Bell Harbor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the payments Charles mentioned were blackmail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas took legitimate security jobs through the company. Harlan\u2019s payments were disguised among them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel shook his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Harlan know Janice was the nurse who saw him with Leo?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas told him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would he do that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe panicked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarlan discovered Thomas had married me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room twisted around that detail.<\/p>\n<p>The surveillance operative and the nurse witness had become husband and wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen did you meet Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo years after Sarah died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t know he had watched Sarah?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he didn\u2019t know you were the nurse?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot at first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was almost impossible to believe.<\/p>\n<p>Yet lives collide strangely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened when you discovered the truth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe nearly divorced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice looked at the family photographs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fear again.<\/p>\n<p>Always children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Thomas keep working for Harlan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo keep Harlan believing he was controlled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank asked, \u201cAnd meanwhile Thomas kept Robert\u2019s packet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI searched everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never found it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why did you know Sarah\u2019s note was still important?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Thomas said the packet wasn\u2019t the only copy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We all went still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert made more?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said Sarah herself had arranged one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I felt my breath catch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas believed Robert gave her something before labor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found the blue notebook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat then?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn suddenly sat straighter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cassette.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat cassette?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah carried a small recorder during the last month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I searched my memory.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said she wanted to remember questions for doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice\u2019s eyes widened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas mentioned a recording.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel stepped toward her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat recording?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said Robert believed Sarah recorded Harlan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one moved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore labor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she record?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank immediately asked whether I had any of Sarah\u2019s old electronics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kept everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We went upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>Boxes came down.<\/p>\n<p>Drawers opened.<\/p>\n<p>Closets emptied.<\/p>\n<p>No recorder.<\/p>\n<p>Then Leo appeared at the top of the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>I had forgotten his headphones did not prevent him from noticing half the house moving around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you looking for?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I almost said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I remembered our promise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA little voice recorder your mother may have owned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leo frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did it look like?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall. Probably silver or black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike the one in Mom\u2019s old desk?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leo pointed toward Sarah\u2019s room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s one in the back drawer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found it last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never told me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said I could look at her stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was right.<\/p>\n<p>We followed him.<\/p>\n<p>In the bottom drawer of Sarah\u2019s old desk, beneath stationery and dried-out pens, was a small digital recorder.<\/p>\n<p>I recognized it only after holding it.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah had bought it for school.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes it work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The battery compartment was corroded.<\/p>\n<p>Frank took it carefully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t turn it on ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leo looked disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForensics can recover data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow long?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo promises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leo sighed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re all becoming lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank took the recorder.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving, Janice stopped me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s one more thing Thomas said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said if the recording existed, Harlan would kill to get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A chill went through me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarlan is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat danger is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice looked toward the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think Harlan was the person Thomas feared most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who was?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe never said a name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She glanced at Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe only called him Pike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Pike.<\/p>\n<p>The Whitmore security supervisor who had first received reports that Robert was helping Sarah.<\/p>\n<p>The man who might have known about every watcher, every photograph and every threat.<\/p>\n<p>And until that moment, no one had asked whether he had spent ten years protecting Charles.<\/p>\n<p>Or protecting himself.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/?p=13701\">Click here to continue reading: PART 16: Sarah\u2019s Recorder Captured Harlan Naming Gordon Pike, and One Final Sound Revealed Someone Else Had Entered the Room Before She Died<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janice did not deny knowing about Bell Harbor Consulting. That was the first thing she said when Frank confronted her. We were in my living room. 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