manager.”
“That means nothing.”
“In his world it meant something else.”
Intelligence.
I leaned back.
Melissa continued.
“Robert helped relocate me after Danny died. Claire knew. My parents knew. Everyone agreed it was better if I disappeared.”
“Why fake your death?”
“Because I had evidence about the network selling pills through military communities around Norfolk. Danny got addicted through them. I helped federal investigators. Some of those people were dangerous.”
That part, then, had been true.
“What does any of this have to do with Claire stealing from me?”
Melissa began crying.
“Because Claire thought I had access to Robert’s money.”
I froze.
“She contacted me two years ago. First time in years.”
“What did she say?”
“She said your marriage was falling apart. She said Robert had hidden money and that you were going to disappear with it.”
“My storage unit.”
Melissa nodded.
“She asked me whether Robert had
