Chapter 17 — Ethan Learns the Whole Truth
# A Fall at Sunset
## Chapter 17 — Ethan Learns the Whole Truth
Several weeks later, Detective Mitchell visited Ethan with the completed investigation.
"There was something else," she said.
She placed a thick file on his desk.
The financial investigation revealed that Victoria had accumulated millions of dollars in gambling debts through secret investments.
She had desperately searched for a way out.
Among the documents was a large insurance policy connected to Emily.
If Emily and the unborn baby had died in the same accident, Victoria would have gained access to a complicated trust through a shell investment company she secretly controlled.
Ethan stared silently at the paperwork.
"So it was never personal?"
Detective Mitchell shook her head.
"It began with jealousy."
"It ended with greed."
Ethan closed the folder.
He had spent weeks asking why someone within his own family could commit such cruelty.
Now he finally had his answer.
Money had become more important to Victoria than human life.
He looked through the office window toward the garden where Emily was pushing their son in a stroller.
No amount of wealth could ever compare to what he almost lost.
