Chapter 13 - THE MISSING TEN MINUTESThe kennel footage had a gap.
Nine minutes and forty-three seconds.
Tiny.
Easy to miss.
Someone had edited the cloud archive before Linda erased it.
The downloaded copy preserved metadata.
The deletion happened from Ryan’s laptop.
Ryan denied doing it.
Cyber investigators discovered remote access.
From Mark’s office.
Mark had accessed Ryan’s computer.
He had been manipulating evidence.
Not to protect Linda.
To make Ryan look guilty.
Why?
Because Ryan was Thomas’s biological heir.
And Mark wanted control of the trust.
But greed alone didn't explain Thomas’s death.
Then Alvarez found the missing ten minutes on a backup server.
We watched.
Mark confronted Linda beside the kennel.
He handed her the padlock first.
Not Sarah.
Sarah received it seconds later.
Mark told Linda something.
She smiled.
Then Sarah arrived.
Mark disappeared.
The entire event had been seeded by him.
He knew Linda’s cruelty.
He knew Sarah’s fear.
He knew Ryan’s weakness.
He knew my temper.
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He placed everyone exactly where he needed them.
And waited.
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