A Shadow Of Doubt

Together Again

Grace
I watch as my mother takes her last breath after talking to my father for the last three days. She laughed and smiled a lot, like she was actually with him. I have heard people do this before as they were giving up or getting ready to be with their loved ones who have already passed away. My mother lived well past what her doctors predicted she would by two years. Her wanting to see Theodore Grey graduate high school via FaceTime it was like she stayed just for him to graduate as Valedictorian. He made her proud she was one her biggest cheerleaders. He loved visiting her along with her other Great grandchildren.
Four days later we bury mom in the plot right by dad the heart shaped stone added the date of death to it. She lived to have ten great grandchildren.
Carrick
I hold Grace as we say farewell to her mother, some people would say having a mother in law live with you would be unbearable. They didn't have my lovely brilliant mother in law living with them. The laughter and her never being afraid to speak her mind was a blessing to all of us. She became very close to all her family before her illness and her eventual death. She told stories of her life and the history of the orchard and how she was around when Seattle was being developed. The Grace stories were definitely hilarious and embarrassing to me and Grace.
Theodore
Greatest great grandmother was a wonderful person, she called everyone to visit her the week before she passed away. She said her final farewells to all of the family. Little Christian, Phoebe, Madison, Shannon, Tyler my siblings rode with me to the grave site. Mom and dad helped arrange the funeral. Elliott and Christine brought Stephanie, Elliott, little Carrick and Sarah with them. Kate and David brought James, Alex, Ava, Sienna, and Daniel came as well. Mia and Graham brought Olivia, Deidre, Scott, Oliver and Graham Jameson the third. She had a large gathering at her wake she touched a lot of people's hearts. She definitely created quite a stir after great grandfather passed away. She got very active in charities of all kinds and it kept her busy up until her health prevented her from doing it full time. She started turning her work over to four people to take over. My speech included Madison Trevelyan who was one of the many people who stood by all of us in everything good and bad that we have been through. She was there when mom lost her father and stepmother in a car wreck. Dad was out of town on business and couldn't get back until he signed the contracts for the purchase. Kate was also at a loss because Ray was like her own father and Enid both were huge loss to the whole family until now. Ethan changed his life and married his long time assistant and they had three children Enid, Kate and Madison Kavanagh. Eamon made the funerals of Ray and Enid the tears were unmistakable. He also came to Madison's funeral.
Sheila
Because I listened to David and Shelly I am not only one of their COO's and am married to a very kind man who is the owner of Seattle press. We have triplets David, Samuel and Shelly. Gia Matteo is now selling real estate internationally and domestically. She is the go to person for real estate and professionalism. She married four years after meeting David and Shelly, they adopted four children of a client who passed away before the sale of her home went through. The kids had no one but their mother left. They live a very private life in Seattle. Her husband is a retired company owner who sits back and they live off the company profits.
Anastasia
I cried for a while when Madison died, but losing dad and Enid was pretty bad. Kate and I had to identify the bodies. There were closed caskets. Apparently someone deliberately caused the wreck and walked away from the truck. They never found who did it to this day. Cctv cameras for that area somehow weren't working at the time. I hope one day justice is served.
Christian
I asked Taylor to have someone check further into Enid and Rays murder. There was no doubt it was planned out from beginning to end. Enid and Ray kept saying a name, Frederick Anderson. Anastasia went through some files that Ray had been working through and found missing documentation. She had her IT go through things again on the off site servers that they built into the system and could not be accessed unless you were there physically. She took me to the place and you would never think it was capable of having such equipment there. It was in a homeless shelter, we dressed appropriately for the area and took one of the company undercover cars. We found out that Frederick Anderson was a hit man sent by a clients spouse to kill Ray and Enid and to take all the records they had on them. Ray had uncovered several murders ordered by the person including her husbands. The husband divorced her and changed his will. Anderson was given up by the wife thinking she wouldn't go to jail. She didn't make it to jail. A fellow cell mate killed her thinking she was an alien. Personally I think it was an act, but a person could create that persona if they really wanted to. A month later the psycho escaped a maximum security mental facility.
Frederick Anderson
Because the snitch can't testify against me any longer I was released and all charges were dropped.
Jack Hyde
I got wind of Frederick Anderson the guy I have been asked to find and take care of. He killed again after killing the Jameson's. It took me a week and I made it look like an accident and left him like he left the Steele couple. In an area where they had no help and there were no cctv footage or cameras. I found my decoy car and headed back to Texas after dumping all the evidence in a place they would never look for it in. My grand daughter is having her first birthday and I promised her parents I would be back for it. Anderson made the news and I got a call about it and I had the money transferred to the Madison Trevelyan charity.
Dr Smith
Someone left me what I have been looking for and told me to be careful with it and use it only for good. The neurotoxin and the antidote formula. I placed it in my safe and locked it up for safety. I learned that in the wrong hands these would be used for evil. I just wanted to be sure we could save the victims of the neurotoxin and the people who gave it to them.

The family created an charity in Madison Trevelyan's name and they all took time to help out with it.
Hyde only killed bad guys for money. He refused to kill good people, but his clients had no idea. No one knew that he was a computer genius and could make it look like he was anywhere in the world.
The End
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