Mercer did not let anyone call Curtis Vale.<\/p>\n
That was my first instinct.<\/p>\n
It was also, according to Mercer, exactly the wrong one.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he knows we're looking for him, he disappears.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe may already know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe stood outside my house.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFour months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe followed me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don't know that yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mercer looked at me across the hotel suite.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I think and what I can prove are different things.\u201d<\/p>\n
I was beginning to hate that distinction.<\/p>\n
Megan sat at the dining table with her laptop closed for once. Two officers remained outside the suite. Another had been positioned downstairs.<\/p>\n
Daniel was still at Holt Ridge with the cybersecurity team.<\/p>\n
Evelyn had gone home long enough to change clothes and returned by video looking exactly as severe as before.<\/p>\n
Mercer sent the greenhouse image to investigators who knew Vale.<\/p>\n
The identification came back quickly.<\/p>\n
Definitely Curtis Vale.<\/p>\n
The harder question was where he was now.<\/p>\n
His registered address was an apartment outside Charlotte.<\/p>\n
Empty.<\/p>\n
Rent paid automatically.<\/p>\n
Neighbors had not seen him in weeks.<\/p>\n
His known vehicle, a gray Ford Explorer, had been sold three months earlier.<\/p>\n
Cash.<\/p>\n
The buyer had resold it.<\/p>\n
No useful trail.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about the SUV from Greenville?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cDifferent vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRegistered to Crestline.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Ward had access to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLikely.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Vale?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnknown.\u201d<\/p>\n
The September sixteenth footage gave us something better than his face.<\/p>\n
A vehicle appeared for less than three seconds at the far edge of another camera.<\/p>\n
Dark sedan.<\/p>\n
Partial plate.<\/p>\n
Mercer\u2019s team began working it.<\/p>\n
I went through the footage myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cMiranda.\u201d<\/p>\n
I ignored him.<\/p>\n
\u201cMiranda.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou're watching the same clip.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou won't find pixels my analysts missed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI might remember something.\u201d<\/p>\n
That stopped him.<\/p>\n
I watched again.<\/p>\n
Vale crossed the edge of the greenhouse.<\/p>\n
Paused.<\/p>\n
Looked toward my driveway.<\/p>\n
Then disappeared behind the structure.<\/p>\n
Twenty-seven seconds later, motion activated the camera near the side gate.<\/p>\n
Nothing visible.<\/p>\n
Then another camera triggered near the utility box.<\/p>\n
I sat forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would he go there?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mercer looked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe utility box.\u201d<\/p>\n
The camera showed only bushes moving.<\/p>\n
But I remembered September.<\/p>\n
Two days after Greenville, the exterior lights had stopped working.<\/p>\n
I had assumed a breaker tripped.<\/p>\n
An electrician came the following afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he find?\u201d Mercer asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't remember.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho did the work?\u201d<\/p>\n
I searched my email.<\/p>\n
Blue Ridge Electrical Services.<\/p>\n
Invoice.<\/p>\n
September seventeenth.<\/p>\n
Exterior lighting circuit manually disconnected at service panel.<\/p>\n
Mercer read it twice.<\/p>\n
\u201cManually?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The electrician had written that the disconnect was unusual but found no equipment failure.<\/p>\n
At the time, I barely noticed.<\/p>\n
Someone had disabled the exterior lights.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d Megan asked.<\/p>\n
Mercer answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo test access.\u201d<\/p>\n
Or cameras.<\/p>\n
Or response time.<\/p>\n
Or whether I noticed.<\/p>\n
The thought made my own house feel unfamiliar.<\/p>\n
I remembered coming home that night.<\/p>\n
Dark driveway.<\/p>\n
I had used my phone flashlight to reach the door.<\/p>\n
Nothing happened.<\/p>\n
Maybe nothing was supposed to.<\/p>\n
Maybe September had been reconnaissance.<\/p>\n
Mercer called the electrician.<\/p>\n
He remembered the job because the house was new.<\/p>\n
He also remembered something else.<\/p>\n
The service-panel lock had scratches around it.<\/p>\n
He assumed landscaping contractors had forced it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas the lock broken?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPicked?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCould have been.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vale had security experience.<\/p>\n
The possibility fit too easily.<\/p>\n
At midnight, Daniel called.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to see this.\u201d<\/p>\n
He sent an image.<\/p>\n
A payment ledger recovered from Ward\u2019s encrypted files.<\/p>\n
Most entries used initials.<\/p>\n
Consultants.<\/p>\n
Technology vendors.<\/p>\n
Private investigators.<\/p>\n
One entry dated September twelfth:<\/p>\n
CV \u2014 route\/access assessment \u2014 15K.<\/p>\n
CV.<\/p>\n
Curtis Vale.<\/p>\n
Two days before Brooke followed me to Greenville.<\/p>\n
Four days before Vale appeared outside my greenhouse.<\/p>\n
There was another entry.<\/p>\n
October third:<\/p>\n
CV \u2014 contingency prep \u2014 25K.<\/p>\n
Then December eighteenth:<\/p>\n
CV \u2014 standby \u2014 40K.<\/p>\n
Megan read the amounts over my shoulder.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was paid eighty thousand dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt least,\u201d Mercer said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy Ward?\u201d<\/p>\n
The ledger belonged to Ward.<\/p>\n
But payment source mattered.<\/p>\n
Daniel traced the first transfer.<\/p>\n
Not Crestline.<\/p>\n
Not Blue Heron.<\/p>\n
Not Richard.<\/p>\n
Pike Development Holdings.<\/p>\n
Aaron\u2019s company.<\/p>\n
I stared at the screen.<\/p>\n
\u201cAaron paid him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis company did,\u201d Evelyn corrected.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat distinction again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aaron had just told us he refused to participate in an accident.<\/p>\n
Yet his company paid the man apparently hired to assess my routes and access.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe Ward controlled the account,\u201d Daniel said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan we tell?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWorking on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another encrypted message arrived.<\/p>\n
Aaron.<\/p>\n
I DIDN\u2019T AUTHORIZE VALE.<\/p>\n
Mercer leaned toward the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knows.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEither he has visibility into our investigation or he's anticipating what we'll find.\u201d<\/p>\n
I typed nothing.<\/p>\n
Another message.<\/p>\n
WARD HAD PIKE ACCOUNT ACCESS.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
CHECK TOKEN 3.<\/p>\n
Daniel heard it through the call.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat token?\u201d<\/p>\n
We searched Pike Development banking records already obtained through the investigation.<\/p>\n
Three authentication devices had been registered.<\/p>\n
Token One: Aaron.<\/p>\n
Token Two: Brooke.<\/p>\n
Token Three: unknown administrator.<\/p>\n
The bank had an enrollment IP address.<\/p>\n
Daniel traced it.<\/p>\n
Holt Ridge.<\/p>\n
My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
Six years ago.<\/p>\n
During David Ward\u2019s employment.<\/p>\n
Ward had apparently enrolled himself as an administrator on Aaron\u2019s company account from inside my office.<\/p>\n
That was almost elegant in its arrogance.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan we prove Token Three was Ward?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot from IP alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bank had device metadata.<\/p>\n
Old laptop identifier.<\/p>\n
The cybersecurity consultant matched it to a Holt Ridge computer assigned to David Ward.<\/p>\n
There.<\/p>\n
Ward controlled Pike Development\u2019s account.<\/p>\n
Aaron had told the truth about that.<\/p>\n
At least one truth.<\/p>\n
I typed:<\/p>\n
Why did you let Ward keep access?<\/p>\n
Aaron responded:<\/p>\n
BECAUSE HE PAID ME.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
AND BECAUSE BY THE TIME I WANTED HIM OUT HE HAD EVERYTHING.<\/p>\n
That sounded painfully familiar.<\/p>\n
Brooke\u2019s story.<\/p>\n
Everyone entered through greed, resentment, fear, or convenience.<\/p>\n
Then the conspiracy became the thing controlling them.<\/p>\n
Mercer instructed me to ask where Vale was.<\/p>\n
Aaron answered:<\/p>\n
DON\u2019T KNOW.<\/p>\n
I asked:<\/p>\n
Who hired him?<\/p>\n
WARD.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
RICHARD FOUND OUT LATER.<\/p>\n
Did Richard approve?<\/p>\n
NO.<\/p>\n
That matched Aaron\u2019s earlier claim.<\/p>\n
Then another message appeared.<\/p>\n
BUT HE DIDN\u2019T STOP IT.<\/p>\n
The distinction mattered more.<\/p>\n
Richard might not have wanted violence.<\/p>\n
But once he learned Ward had prepared it, he allowed the machinery to remain.<\/p>\n
I asked:<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
Aaron took longer.<\/p>\n
BECAUSE HE THOUGHT FEAR MIGHT MAKE YOU SELL.<\/p>\n
That sounded like Richard.<\/p>\n
Not murder.<\/p>\n
Pressure.<\/p>\n
Threat.<\/p>\n
Ambiguity.<\/p>\n
Enough darkness around the edges to make me choose surrender myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cAsk whether Vale was supposed to hurt you in September,\u201d Mercer said.<\/p>\n
I did.<\/p>\n
NO.<\/p>\n
What was September?<\/p>\n
TEST.<\/p>\n
For January?<\/p>\n
Long pause.<\/p>\n
YES.<\/p>\n
My mouth went dry.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens January second?\u201d<\/p>\n
Aaron replied:<\/p>\n
LOAN DEFAULT.<\/p>\n
We knew that.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
JAN 3 THEY SERVE HOLT RIDGE.<\/p>\n
JAN 4 LENDERS GET PACKAGE.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat package?\u201d Daniel asked.<\/p>\n
I typed it.<\/p>\n
Aaron responded:<\/p>\n
FRAUD PACKAGE MAKING YOU LOOK RESPONSIBLE.<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
The next stage.<\/p>\n
The conspirators were going to accuse me of the fraud they committed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was in it?\u201d Evelyn demanded.<\/p>\n
I asked.<\/p>\n
FORGED EMAILS. TRANSFERS. SIDE AGREEMENTS.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
MAKES IT LOOK LIKE YOU USED PIKE TO HIDE DEBT.<\/p>\n
The strategy became clear.<\/p>\n
North Vale forecloses.<\/p>\n
Holt Ridge protests.<\/p>\n
Then documents emerge suggesting I secretly authorized the structure.<\/p>\n
The dispute becomes muddy.<\/p>\n
Lenders panic.<\/p>\n
Partners hesitate.<\/p>\n
Stonebridge\u2014or another buyer\u2014appears.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the personal event?\u201d I asked aloud.<\/p>\n
Mercer told me not to phrase it that way.<\/p>\n
He dictated:<\/p>\n
What was Vale supposed to do after January 4?<\/p>\n
Aaron answered:<\/p>\n
WARD SAID IF YOU STILL FOUGHT, VALE WOULD GIVE YOU A REASON TO STOP.<\/p>\n
What reason?<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
Nothing.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
ASK VALE.<\/p>\n
The connection closed.<\/p>\n
Mercer immediately called his team.<\/p>\n
Vale had moved from person of interest to urgent priority.<\/p>\n
At one-fifteen in the morning, the partial plate returned a match.<\/p>\n
The sedan outside my house had been rented in Charlotte.<\/p>\n
Customer:<\/p>\n
Curtis Vale.<\/p>\n
Paid with a prepaid corporate card.<\/p>\n
Issuer records showed the card had been funded by Blue Heron Strategic.<\/p>\n
Richard\u2019s company.<\/p>\n
That complicated Aaron\u2019s version.<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard paid Vale too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBlue Heron did,\u201d Evelyn said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease don't.\u201d<\/p>\n
She almost smiled.<\/p>\n
Mercer requested the full card history.<\/p>\n
Hotel.<\/p>\n
Fuel.<\/p>\n
Restaurants.<\/p>\n
Hardware store.<\/p>\n
A self-storage facility.<\/p>\n
And, repeatedly, a small private mailbox center in Asheville.<\/p>\n
\u201cRecent?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mailbox was paid through next month.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan we search it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot without authority.\u201d<\/p>\n
He started getting authority.<\/p>\n
At eight the next morning, while I slept badly in the next room, investigators opened Vale\u2019s mailbox.<\/p>\n
Inside were ordinary advertisements, two utility notices, and one padded envelope.<\/p>\n
The envelope contained three burner phones.<\/p>\n
One had never been activated.<\/p>\n
One was wiped.<\/p>\n
The third still contained partial data.<\/p>\n
A single photograph survived.<\/p>\n
My house.<\/p>\n
Taken from across the road.<\/p>\n
Timestamp: December twenty-second.<\/p>\n
Three days before Christmas.<\/p>\n
Vale had still been watching.<\/p>\n
There was also a draft message that had never been sent.<\/p>\n
LIGHTS GOOD. CAMERAS SAME. NEW GATE. SHE\u2019S HOME MOST NIGHTS.<\/p>\n
No recipient remained.<\/p>\n
But the forensic team recovered fragments of the deleted contact.<\/p>\n
Initials:<\/p>\n
DW.<\/p>\n
David Ward.<\/p>\n
At nine-thirty, another search warrant reached Ward\u2019s Colorado residence.<\/p>\n
Investigators found no weapons.<\/p>\n
No detailed attack plan.<\/p>\n
But they found a folder labeled H.<\/p>\n
Inside were maps of Henderson.<\/p>\n
My travel calendar.<\/p>\n
Holt Ridge organizational charts.<\/p>\n
And photographs.<\/p>\n
Me entering the office.<\/p>\n
Daniel leaving his house.<\/p>\n
Megan at a restaurant.<\/p>\n
My parents outside their home.<\/p>\n
Brooke outside a casino.<\/p>\n
The conspiracy had watched everyone.<\/p>\n
One photograph made me stop breathing.<\/p>\n
Lucy Hale.<\/p>\n
My cousin\u2019s teenage daughter.<\/p>\n
She had visited me at Holt Ridge once that summer.<\/p>\n
The photograph showed her outside our office.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy is she here?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mercer took the photograph.<\/p>\n
\u201cCould be indiscriminate surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has nothing to do with this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why photograph her?\u201d<\/p>\n
He didn't answer.<\/p>\n
On the back, Ward had written:<\/p>\n
Family visitor \u2014 not relevant.<\/p>\n
Relief and anger arrived together.<\/p>\n
She had been assessed and dismissed.<\/p>\n
We were entries in a risk file.<\/p>\n
At ten, Evelyn came to the hotel.<\/p>\n
She put coffee in front of me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need you functional.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCharming.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI bill extra for warmth.\u201d<\/p>\n
She opened her folder.<\/p>\n
\u201cNorth Vale has changed position.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey want to rescind.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe loan?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey're admitting fraud?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. They're saying newly discovered irregularities make enforcement commercially imprudent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat's lawyer language for running away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan they?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can agree the loan is unenforceable against Holt Ridge.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about the money?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey'll pursue the recipients.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPike. Blue Heron. Others.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Henderson?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cReleased from the disputed lien.\u201d<\/p>\n
That should have been excellent news.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat's the catch?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cConfidentiality.\u201d<\/p>\n
I laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI assumed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey want us silent?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey want settlement communications protected and no public accusation of lender misconduct.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey loaned almost two million dollars without verifying who borrowed it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey prefer that not become a headline.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI prefer not being stalked.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDifferent negotiation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo confidentiality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou already decided?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy ask?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoy watching clients reach the correct answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
She closed the folder.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf North Vale releases the lien without confidentiality, we accept.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if not?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe litigate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
At eleven-forty, Mercer called.<\/p>\n
Curtis Vale had been found.<\/p>\n
My entire body tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAsheville.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cArrested?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe's in a hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCar accident.\u201d<\/p>\n
For a moment nobody spoke.<\/p>\n
The irony was too ugly.<\/p>\n
\u201cSerious?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cConscious?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWas anyone else hurt?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne other driver. Minor injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEarly this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAccident?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAppears so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAppears.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mercer heard my suspicion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe're investigating.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vale\u2019s vehicle contained a duffel bag.<\/p>\n
Cash.<\/p>\n
Two phones.<\/p>\n
A passport.<\/p>\n
And a handgun legally registered to him.<\/p>\n
Nothing tied directly to me.<\/p>\n
Then Mercer said, \u201cThere was also an envelope.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat envelope?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour name is on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
My pulse changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat's inside?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven't opened it yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvidence processing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI'll call.\u201d<\/p>\n
He did twenty-seven minutes later.<\/p>\n
The envelope contained photographs.<\/p>\n
My house.<\/p>\n
My car.<\/p>\n
Holt Ridge.<\/p>\n
And a handwritten sheet.<\/p>\n
Not Ward\u2019s writing.<\/p>\n
Vale\u2019s.<\/p>\n
It listed instructions.<\/p>\n
Observe only until authorization.<\/p>\n
No direct contact.<\/p>\n
No action involving family.<\/p>\n
If H refuses after foreclosure, create nonfatal vehicle incident.<\/p>\n
Nonfatal.<\/p>\n
The word was almost worse because someone had taken time to specify it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho authorized the instructions?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo signature.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPayment?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWard.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything else?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mercer went quiet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLast line.\u201d<\/p>\n
He read it.<\/p>\n
If Ward changes scope, contact R before proceeding.<\/p>\n
R.<\/p>\n
Richard.<\/p>\n
My skin went cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Richard knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt minimum, Vale believed Richard had final authority over escalation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard could claim he opposed violence.<\/p>\n
Maybe he had.<\/p>\n
But the man hired to frighten me believed Richard was the person who could approve more.<\/p>\n
That was enough to destroy the comforting version.<\/p>\n
Richard had not been standing outside the darkness.<\/p>\n
He had simply been deciding how far into it he was willing to go.<\/p>\n
Mercer did not let anyone call Curtis Vale. That was my first instinct. It was also, according to Mercer, exactly the wrong one. \u201cIf he knows we're looking for him, … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-every-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14147,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions\/14147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}