She handed it to me.
Inside was a photocopy of an old handwritten letter, dated twenty years earlier.
I recognized my father’s signature immediately.
The letter was addressed to a man whose name I had never heard before: Robert Hayes, the lawyer who had represented Daniel’s father.
I began reading.
The letter was short, but its meaning was devastating.
My father admitted that he had ordered changes to the pharmacy records. He explained that Daniel’s father had become a threat because he had begun asking questions about missing medication and money.
He had instructed his staff to make the records appear as though the supervising pharmacist had authorized the transactions.
The final paragraph made my hands shake.
Victor had written that Daniel’s father could never be allowed to prove what had happened. He also warned that Daniel was becoming a problem and that his relationship with Evelyn could be used to force him into silence.
