The request to erase the hospital record used Everett's own login. Not because Everett had done it. Because Paige had never given up her old access. She'd been granted it years earlier. Back when she managed his calendar during his father's illness. She still knew every password he'd never bothered to change.
"She's been inside my life for years," Everett said. "Every part of it."
He called his mother that same evening, unable to wait until morning. She'd been the one who first noticed the brooch missing, all those months ago. "I always liked Naomi," his mother said quietly, once he explained everything. "I never understood why you believed the worst so quickly." "Neither do I, anymore," Everett admitted. His mother didn't say I told you so. She didn't need to. The silence on the line said enough.
"She still is," Silas said. "As far as I can tell, she has no idea we know."
