Chapter 8 - The Man Who Signed Her Death Certificate
The body found near Charlotte’s plane belonged to a woman named Elise Morgan.
She was thirty years old.
A maintenance contractor.
A single mother of two.
Elise had reported unusual fuel-line work on Charlotte’s aircraft.
Two days later, she disappeared.
Julian’s men placed her body near the crash and used Charlotte’s bracelet along with forged dental records to establish identity.
The company physician who signed the report was Dr. Raymond Sloane.
He had also approved Victoria’s false autopsy.
Sloane testified under an agreement.
Julian paid him through a Solmere medical subsidiary.
Senator Laurent arranged protection from regulators.
Sloane described Victoria’s death.
Julian drugged her tea.
The medication caused cardiac arrest.
When she collapsed, Sloane delayed emergency treatment and certified a natural cause.
Victoria had been alive for nearly twenty minutes after the first collapse.
Immediate treatment might have saved her.
Charlotte listened from behind the courtroom glass during the preliminary hearing.
Her mother had not simply died.
She had been watched dying by people calculating signatures.
The same people later tried to erase Charlotte.
Isabel Crane testified that she discovered Julian’s first pension theft six years earlier.
He arranged a breakdown narrative.
A private doctor declared her unstable.
She was confined under a false name and drugged.
Victoria eventually found payments linked to the facility.
That discovery led her to the larger conspiracy.
Isabel had survived because Julian still needed account codes.
Her memory became evidence.
Senator Laurent’s role was broader than political protection.
His investment fund faced collapse.
He needed Solmere assets to cover hidden losses.
Bianca’s engagement to Julian would place the Laurent family near the company’s charitable and political network.
Charlotte’s survival threatened everything.
Laurent did not see her as a woman.
He saw her as a voting percentage.
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The trial would expose that worldview completely.
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