Rebecca continued:
Michael never knew how close Mercer came to you that night. I never told him because I feared he would abandon the testimony and return home immediately.
I looked at Michael.
“You didn’t know?”
“No.”
His hands shook.
Then we reached the second page.
Rebecca wrote that the person who had actually saved me that night was not her.
It was Thomas.
Thomas had followed Mercer’s man.
He warned Rebecca.
He gave her the license plate.
He was the reason the man was identified and arrested on unrelated c/rime charges two days later.
Michael sat down.
“My brother saved you.”
“Yes.”
“He never told me.”
“Apparently none of you believed communication was fashionable.”
Michael almost smiled.
Then stopped when he reached the paragraph about Ryan.
Rebecca explained that Thomas had once suspected Mercer might target Michael’s future children.
So Thomas secretly established a trust fund.
