{"id":4855,"date":"2026-09-28T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2026-09-28T00:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:00:56","slug":"part-18-threats-against-daniels-daughter-revealed-one-unidentified-insider-was-still-free-and-rachels-recorder-contained-the-voice-carter-had-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/?p=4855","title":{"rendered":"PART 18 \u2013 Threats Against Daniel\u2019s Daughter Revealed One Unidentified Insider Was Still Free, and Rachel\u2019s Recorder Contained the Voice Carter Had Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The message to Lucy Mercer changed the assumption that the network\u2019s active threat had ended with the arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Carter stood at the operations board before sunrise while analysts traced the sender.<\/p>\n<p>Prepaid number.<\/p>\n<p>Activated six hours earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Purchased with cash.<\/p>\n<p>Location data showed the phone near the town where Daniel and Lucy lived when the first message was sent.<\/p>\n<p>Then it moved.<\/p>\n<p>By the time investigators began tracking it, the device was traveling east on an interstate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurner tossed from a car?\u201d Brooks asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we get traffic cameras?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlready pulling them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel and Lucy were transferred again under state protection.<\/p>\n<p>Their home was sealed.<\/p>\n<p>Only a small group knew the new location.<\/p>\n<p>Carter was furious that anyone had found them at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho knew about Daniel before we contacted him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks started counting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttorney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProsecutors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly Evelyn if Hale is wrong about what she knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd whoever Rachel contacted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter looked toward the evidence list.<\/p>\n<p>The unseen voice on the tape from Rachel\u2019s final night returned to her mind.<\/p>\n<p>Erase this.<\/p>\n<p>I will.<\/p>\n<p>One unidentified male had been present or connected to the basement camera.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone had focused on the visible participants.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that was the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>She ordered audio specialists to isolate every usable syllable from the recording.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, analysts traced the burner route.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic cameras captured a dark pickup at two locations matching the phone\u2019s movement.<\/p>\n<p>License plate obscured by mud.<\/p>\n<p>Driver not visible.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger appeared briefly.<\/p>\n<p>Male.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball cap.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing enough for identification.<\/p>\n<p>Carter returned to Richard Hale.<\/p>\n<p>His attorney objected to another interview without additional consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Carter said, \u201cSomeone threatened Daniel Marsh\u2019s daughter last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale\u2019s reaction was immediate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m asking you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale looked genuinely unsettled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvelyn found them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvelyn is in custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNames.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave you names.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His attorney interrupted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHale has complied with\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter cut him off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was another person present the night Rachel died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale\u2019s eyes shifted.<\/p>\n<p>There.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know who.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale stayed silent.<\/p>\n<p>Carter leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho said, \u2018I will\u2019 when you ordered the recording erased?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t order it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were on tape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what I said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who answered?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale looked toward his attorney.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney said, \u201cIf this exposes my client to additional charges\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is already facing enough charges to spend the rest of his life in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter kept her eyes on Hale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about a sixteen-year-old girl being threatened now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale exhaled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaleb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFull name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaleb Voss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter wrote it down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did he do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnical systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Horizons?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContractor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow long involved?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy have we never seen the name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Evelyn liked him invisible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRole?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCameras. alarms. databases. deletion systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last door.<\/p>\n<p>The archive countdown.<\/p>\n<p>Remote monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>It fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas he at Rachel\u2019s house?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the van outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the voice came through an intercom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy was he recording?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvelyn wanted documentation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf a murder?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wanted leverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter thought of the second archive.<\/p>\n<p>Every crime became insurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is Voss now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast contact?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale glared.<\/p>\n<p>Carter waited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe contacted me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaya.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter\u2019s pulse quickened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knew she had seen Howard die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho was Howard?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoward Lane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRole?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccountant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Grant?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOriginally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did he discover?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoney missing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho took it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvelyn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvelyn stole from her own operation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMillions over time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOffshore. Property. accounts no one else knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoward confronted her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe killed him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaya did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is Howard\u2019s body?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarm, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another search would be required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Voss want six months ago?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said Evelyn was cleaning up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeaning?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDestroying evidence. Removing people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he fear for himself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not come to police?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale almost smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople in our world didn\u2019t go to police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou had Dean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter ignored the bitter logic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere did Voss go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told me he had insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCopies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf the leverage archive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould he have found Daniel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale\u2019s answer came quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel\u2019s digital trail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter stood.<\/p>\n<p>Voss had managed cameras and databases.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone could recover information Thomas failed to find, it was him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe may have known Daniel existed for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy threaten him now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale looked at Carter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Evelyn can\u2019t control him anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why continue her work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe it isn\u2019t her work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaleb hated Evelyn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why threaten Daniel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe might want something Daniel has.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale\u2019s eyes narrowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer copies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room went still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat copies?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel always copied everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter thought of the recorder.<\/p>\n<p>The sewing box.<\/p>\n<p>Hidden notes.<\/p>\n<p>The digital account.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the material investigators recovered was only part of what Rachel had preserved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Daniel have her evidence?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoss thinks he does?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter left immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel was asked directly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Rachel give you files?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>That was enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn envelope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel looked toward Lucy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a safe-deposit box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter closed her eyes for half a second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat bank?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot under my current name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen help us keep Lucy alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He nodded.<\/p>\n<p>The box was in a bank two states away under an alias Daniel had used fifteen years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Court authorization and Daniel\u2019s cooperation allowed access.<\/p>\n<p>Inside sat one envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel\u2019s handwriting covered the front.<\/p>\n<p>FOR D \u2014 IF I FAIL.<\/p>\n<p>Carter opened it under evidence protocol.<\/p>\n<p>The contents were simple.<\/p>\n<p>A flash drive.<\/p>\n<p>Three printed photographs.<\/p>\n<p>A key.<\/p>\n<p>And a handwritten letter.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel asked Carter to read it aloud.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel had written it months before her death.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel,<\/p>\n<p>If you are holding this, then something happened before I could fix it.<\/p>\n<p>I found Evelyn again, but she is not the worst thing anymore. What she built became bigger than her.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas is involved. I married him without knowing.<\/p>\n<p>I am so sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Carter paused.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel covered his face.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel continued.<\/p>\n<p>There is a man Evelyn uses for computers and cameras. Caleb Voss. I think he watches everyone, including Evelyn.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever hear his name, disappear again.<\/p>\n<p>He knows where the records are.<\/p>\n<p>He knows where you are.<\/p>\n<p>Carter stopped reading.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy whispered, \u201cShe knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel had identified Voss before Hale ever named him.<\/p>\n<p>The letter continued.<\/p>\n<p>I also found proof Evelyn has been searching for you through children.<\/p>\n<p>She checks teenagers and young adults who enter systems connected to New Horizons.<\/p>\n<p>She looks for resemblance.<\/p>\n<p>She is searching for your daughter even though I never told her you had one.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel stood abruptly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter finished the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Because Voss found Lucy\u2019s birth record.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel went pale.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel had known.<\/p>\n<p>She had tried to warn him.<\/p>\n<p>The flash drive contained encrypted files.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus began working immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The three photographs showed Caleb Voss.<\/p>\n<p>One at a New Horizons event.<\/p>\n<p>One outside Thomas\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p>One beside a utility van parked near St. Matthew\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Voss was younger in the first image.<\/p>\n<p>Thin face.<\/p>\n<p>Dark beard.<\/p>\n<p>Wire-frame glasses.<\/p>\n<p>Current databases placed him at fifty-three.<\/p>\n<p>No stable employment for seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Last known company dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>No current address.<\/p>\n<p>The key opened nothing in Daniel\u2019s box.<\/p>\n<p>A number was engraved on it.<\/p>\n<p>602.<\/p>\n<p>Carter stared.<\/p>\n<p>Another locker.<\/p>\n<p>Storage?<\/p>\n<p>Bank?<\/p>\n<p>Transit terminal?<\/p>\n<p>Analysts searched historical facilities associated with Rachel.<\/p>\n<p>Locker 602 existed at a regional train station.<\/p>\n<p>Rental had lapsed after Rachel\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The locker itself had never been cleared because fees had been paid automatically from an account until the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Someone had kept it active after Rachel died.<\/p>\n<p>Carter felt unease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho paid?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The account name was fictitious.<\/p>\n<p>Digital review tied it to a cryptocurrency exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Funds originated through a wallet linked to Caleb Voss.<\/p>\n<p>He knew about the locker.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe he had been preserving it.<\/p>\n<p>Or waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Police secured the station.<\/p>\n<p>Locker 602 was opened.<\/p>\n<p>Inside was a metal case.<\/p>\n<p>No explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Just hard drives.<\/p>\n<p>Six of them.<\/p>\n<p>Labels in Rachel\u2019s handwriting.<\/p>\n<p>EM.<\/p>\n<p>RH.<\/p>\n<p>GG.<\/p>\n<p>PL.<\/p>\n<p>RD.<\/p>\n<p>CV.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn Marsh.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Hale.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Grant.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Dean.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb Voss.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel had built her own archive.<\/p>\n<p>The Voss drive was the largest.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus examined directory headers.<\/p>\n<p>It contained surveillance logs, internal messages, location histories, and copies of Voss\u2019s private communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel hacked him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Marcus said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gave her these.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese file structures originated from Voss\u2019s own export system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would he give Rachel evidence on himself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus opened a text file.<\/p>\n<p>One line.<\/p>\n<p>If Evelyn kills me, release everything.<\/p>\n<p>Carter understood.<\/p>\n<p>Voss had used Rachel too.<\/p>\n<p>Another mutual-blackmail arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel was caught between people who distrusted one another and all believed she might preserve their insurance.<\/p>\n<p>They decrypted portions.<\/p>\n<p>One conversation between Voss and Evelyn, four years old:<\/p>\n<p>EM: Find D.<\/p>\n<p>CV: No.<\/p>\n<p>EM: You work for me.<\/p>\n<p>CV: Not anymore.<\/p>\n<p>EM: You think Rachel will protect you?<\/p>\n<p>CV: Rachel knows enough to bury all of us.<\/p>\n<p>Another, weeks later:<\/p>\n<p>CV: Leave Daniel alone.<\/p>\n<p>EM: He is my son.<\/p>\n<p>CV: He is forty years old.<\/p>\n<p>EM: Blood does not expire.<\/p>\n<p>Carter stared at that sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn\u2019s obsession had never changed.<\/p>\n<p>Then another message.<\/p>\n<p>EM: I found the girl.<\/p>\n<p>CV: No you didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>EM: Lucy Mercer.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel closed his eyes when Carter told him.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn had known Lucy existed for at least four years.<\/p>\n<p>Why had she not acted?<\/p>\n<p>The next message explained.<\/p>\n<p>CV: Touch Lucy and Rachel\u2019s archive goes public.<\/p>\n<p>Carter felt the case shift again.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb Voss had threatened Evelyn to protect Lucy.<\/p>\n<p>The man now threatening Lucy had once prevented Evelyn from reaching her.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the messages were not from Voss.<\/p>\n<p>Or someone had taken over his infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>They searched further.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent Voss file was dated eight months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Video.<\/p>\n<p>Voss speaking directly to Rachel\u2019s camera system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you ever see this, I\u2019m assuming Evelyn finally moved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked older.<\/p>\n<p>Tired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kept Daniel hidden as long as I could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter leaned closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvelyn found Lucy. I convinced her that touching the girl would release everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A pause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt worked because Evelyn fears exposure more than she loves her son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Voss looked directly into the lens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Grant is changing the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described Grant pushing the network toward higher-risk trafficking, more money, less control.<\/p>\n<p>Maya\u2019s pending transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Lane\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Doyle\u2019s expanded transport routes.<\/p>\n<p>Then:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I disappear, look at Victor Hale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter stopped the video.<\/p>\n<p>Victor.<\/p>\n<p>The caretaker.<\/p>\n<p>Already in custody.<\/p>\n<p>They had treated him as a secondary participant after the farm arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Voss continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVictor wants Evelyn\u2019s archive. He thinks he can rebuild without her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter felt cold.<\/p>\n<p>The threats to Lucy might not come from Voss.<\/p>\n<p>They might come from Victor.<\/p>\n<p>But Victor was in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Unless he had arranged them beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>Or had someone outside.<\/p>\n<p>The video ended with one statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVictor has a son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter looked at Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>No record they had reviewed mentioned one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFind him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Analysts searched.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Hale had no acknowledged children.<\/p>\n<p>But a paternity case from twenty-four years earlier named him as father.<\/p>\n<p>Child:<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Pike.<\/p>\n<p>Current age twenty-three.<\/p>\n<p>Occupation:<\/p>\n<p>Network technician.<\/p>\n<p>Last known employer:<\/p>\n<p>Bellhaven Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Carter stared.<\/p>\n<p>Bellhaven.<\/p>\n<p>The false-identity school.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Pike had worked inside the same system.<\/p>\n<p>His current address was empty.<\/p>\n<p>His car missing.<\/p>\n<p>And traffic footage from the previous night captured a dark pickup registered to Aaron heading east.<\/p>\n<p>Carter placed his photograph beside the blurry image from the burner-phone route.<\/p>\n<p>Build matched.<\/p>\n<p>Hat similar.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks whispered, \u201cHe threatened Lucy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo get Rachel\u2019s archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut how did he know Daniel had it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter looked toward the jail where Victor Hale sat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor may have passed instructions before arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Or Aaron had access to the network independently.<\/p>\n<p>Then Lucy\u2019s protected phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown caller.<\/p>\n<p>Police recorded and traced immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel answered on speaker after Carter signaled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A young man\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell the detective she has something that belongs to my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter gestured for Daniel to keep him talking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The voice hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel\u2019s drives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter felt every eye in the room turn.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron knew they had opened the locker.<\/p>\n<p>That meant someone was still watching investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel asked, \u201cWhat do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll copies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLucy stays safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter silently wrote a question and held it up.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel read it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is Caleb Voss?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>Then Aaron laughed softly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsk my father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The line went dead.<\/p>\n<p>Carter turned toward Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Hale had just moved from secondary prisoner to central source.<\/p>\n<p>And if Aaron\u2019s answer meant what she feared, Caleb Voss may already be dead.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/?p=4856\">Click here to continue reading: PART 19: Victor Hale Finally Explained What Happened to Caleb Voss, but His Son Had Already Taken Someone Who Could Rebuild Evelyn\u2019s Entire System<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The message to Lucy Mercer changed the assumption that the network\u2019s active threat had ended with the arrests. 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