Chapter 5: The Price of Being the Good Sister
I enlarged the photograph until the pixels blurred.
Melissa was wearing a red coat I had bought her for Christmas. Ethan stood beside her with one hand in his pocket and the other resting against the envelope.
They weren't arguing.
They weren't running from anyone.
They looked like twoMelissa was standing beside a man outside a hotel, holding a thick envelope.
The man was Ethan Cole.
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The date stamped on the photograph was two weeks before the first fraudulent loan.
And on the back of the envelope, clearly visible even in the photograph, was my full name.
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