Chapter 13

At eight-thirty on Monday morning, I walked into the fourteenth-floor boardroom at my office. Martin and the HR director were already seated on one side of the long glass table. Across from them sat Brooke's uncle, Douglas Foster. Beside him was a tall, silver-haired woman in a charcoal suit: Rebecca Whitmore, chief legal officer of Meridian Home's parent company. Victoria Hayes had sent the forensic evidence packet directly to Ms. Whitmore's office on Saturday evening. Douglas Foster looked...