"What did you find?" I asked in a low voice.
"It's not safe to discuss over the phone," the investigator replied. "I'm sending you a secure chat link now. Check your messages."
My phone buzzed with a notification. I opened the encrypted messaging app he'd sent and watched as documents started appearing.
"Mrs. O'Brien, are you seeing this?" he asked.
I scrolled through bank records, old business documents, and what looked like college records. My heart stopped when I saw familiar names.
"Charles Watson and Robert O'Brien," I whispered, reading the partnership agreement dated over forty years ago.
"Your father and Axel's father were much closer than you probably realised," the investigator continued. "They went way back to their college days. They actually started their first business together."
I stared at the documents in shock. "What happened?"
