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Chapter 7 - SOMEONE USED THOMAS’S NAME

The meeting message had not come from Thomas.

Digital tracing led elsewhere.

Carter Mobility’s former legal counsel.

Victor Sloan.

The man who negotiated the old defect settlements.

The man who knew exactly what documents Rachel had copied.

Victor had left the company six years earlier and built a private risk-consulting firm.

Rachel had contacted him two months earlier.

She wanted confirmation of the old reports before going public.

Victor agreed to meet.

Then apparently panicked.

Why?

Because Rachel’s documents implicated him too.

Emails showed Victor helped structure confidentiality agreements that concealed the severity of the defect pattern from a prospective buyer.

Not necessarily criminal by itself.

Potentially devastating professionally.

He impersonated Thomas using an old email alias Rachel would recognize.

Invited her to meet.

She went.

Then vanished again.

This time, investigators had cameras.

Rachel’s car entered a parking garage downtown.

Victor’s SUV arrived eight minutes later.

Rachel’s car left.

Victor’s did not.

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The driver of Rachel’s car wore a baseball cap.

Not Rachel.

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