Nathan
I've always been suspicious of coincidences. When an investigation starts repeating the same last name too many times, it stops being a coincidence and begins to look like a pattern.
I reopened the historical file I'd found thanks to that old traffic ticket, and the name appeared before me again. Augusto Reed.
I leaned back in my chair. Reed... I'd seen that last name before.
Not on a traffic document, but in the folder Ethan gave me about the people who, at some point, had been part of his and Clara's lives.
I opened the folder, flipped through several pages, until I found it. Vanessa Reed, former employee... a sort of former romantic partner of Ethan Blackwood's. Fired months ago, and implicated in several internal conflicts.
I looked at both pages side by side. It didn't m
