Chapter 9 - MAKE HER CALM ENOUGH TO SIGN
Gavin refused consent to search his phone and laptop.
His right.
Police obtained warrants limited to the coercion, suspected unlawful medication, and financial documents.
The first messages were bad.
Not complete.
Lenora:
Did she drink it?
Gavin:
Half.
Lenora:
Enough?
Gavin:
I don’t know. She gets sleepy fast now.
There.
Bianca’s attorney read it twice.
Then:
Lenora:
Do not overdo anything.
Gavin:
I know.
Lenora:
We need her calm, not sick.
That sentence made me stand.
Dana told me to sit.
I did.
Then:
Gavin:
Elias asked about meds last time.
Lenora:
Then stop taking her to Elias.
No direct admission yet of what was in the tea.
But what else were they discussing?
Defense later argued:
Herbal sleep tea.
Pregnancy-safe calming mixture.
No.
Digital records would narrow it.
Then search history on Gavin’s phone:
how long prescription sedative detectable blood
can hospital toxicology detect old medication
signing contract while medicated enforceable
after-acquired property assignment spouse
future inheritance assignment enforceability
revocable trust beneficiary current rights
That last search should have answered his entire property scheme.
He kept going.
Then a document note:
Need signature before birth / before Marcello executes trust.
Another:
If she refuses, separation changes everything.
Then Lenora:
She thinks she can run back to her father and still keep access to Rusk house/accounts.
Gavin:
Prenup doesn’t let us leave her with nothing.
Lenora:
She does not know that.
There.
The threat was knowingly false.
Then one final message, sent forty-two minutes before Bianca arrived at Lenora’s house.
Gavin:
Bring the old prescription?
Lenora:
You bring what you used before. I want no part of carrying it.
The room became silent.
Still, no message said:
Put it in her tea.
May you like
That confirmation came from another source.
Chapter Ten arrived in the form of a kitchen camera nobody remembered existed.
