The Key Hidden Inside a Book
The final discovery began with Maris.
After learning about Harrison’s protected reserve, she searched through the belongings her father had left her.
Inside an old collection of Robert Frost poems, she found a small brass key taped beneath the back cover.
Three letters were written beside it.
RCCR.
Rourke Children’s Care Reserve.
Using Harrison’s estate documents, our attorneys identified the bank.
The key belonged to a safe-deposit box that had not been opened since shortly before Harrison’s surgery.
Maris went there with her attorney and Jocelyn.
I stayed home.
At 5:31 that evening, my phone rang.
It was Maris.
Her voice was shaking.
“We opened it.”
“What was inside?”
“Letters. Financial records. Dad kept everything.”
There was also a handwritten ledger listing foundation transfers Harrison had questioned.
That alone could reshape the entire investigation.
But Maris wasn’t finished.
“Tessa, there’s something else.”
“What?”
“There’s a letter addressed to you.”
I stopped moving.
Harrison had passed away years earlier.
