Chapter 9 - THE WIFE THEY CALLED UNSTABLE
The DeLuca attorneys responded with a public campaign.
Anonymous sources told reporters Evelyn had struggled emotionally since Rose’s death.
Articles described her as suspicious, controlling, and unable to accept Vincent’s friendship with Savannah.
A physician who attended DeLuca charity events claimed Evelyn showed signs of paranoia.
He had never treated her.
Vincent filed an emergency petition requesting temporary control of Evelyn’s shares.
He argued that sending confidential company records to federal agents proved she could not act in the business’s best interest.
Nora answered with the ballroom footage.
The forged merger documents.
The financial audit.
Rose’s archive.
And Vincent’s own televised admission that he had controlled the necklace after Rose died.
The judge denied his petition.
Then suspended Vincent from exercising authority over any company involving Evelyn’s shares.
Salvatore ordered employees to choose sides.
Many executives remained loyal.
They had mortgages, families, and decades of fear behind them.
Others contacted the FBI.
A payroll manager revealed that employees were forced to donate to politicians.
A site inspector admitted safety reports were changed after fatal construction accidents.
A former driver described transporting cash inside charity-donation boxes.
Each witness had believed no one else would speak.
Evelyn’s public act broke that isolation.
Still, she paid a price.
Photographers followed her.
Threatening letters reached Nora’s office.
One envelope contained loose imitation pearls and the message:
NEXT TIME IT WILL BE YOUR TEETH.
Agent Torres increased security.
Vincent denied involvement.
Savannah appeared on television wearing black.
She described herself as an employee caught inside a marital conflict.
“I never had a relationship with Vincent.”
Hotel records and messages contradicted her.
When asked about Rose, Savannah said she barely remembered her.
Rose’s notebooks contained Savannah’s signature on fourteen altered invoices.
Federal agents searched Savannah’s apartment.
They found an encrypted laptop, counterfeit passports, and jewelry purchased through shell companies.
Inside a safe was one of Rose’s missing audit notebooks.
Savannah claimed Vincent gave it to her as a souvenir.
The notebook contained the original names of officials paid through DeLuca accounts.
It also contained a torn final page.
Only one sentence remained:
S. knows who drove behind me that night.
Savannah knew who followed Rose.
She requested immunity before answering questions.
Prosecutors refused full immunity.
They offered consideration based on truthful cooperation.
Savannah hesitated.
She still believed Vincent could protect her.
Then her private accounts froze.
The DeLuca attorney stopped returning her calls.
Vincent released a statement calling her a dishonest employee who acted alone.
Savannah watched the statement from the interview room.
The illusion ended.
“He promised we would leave together,” she whispered.
Agent Torres placed Rose’s photograph on the table.
“Tell us what happened to her.”
Savannah looked away.
“I didn’t kill Rose.”
“Who did?”
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“I only told Vincent where she would be.”
👉 Savannah had spent years laughing beside Vincent, but one abandoned mistress was about to expose the night he chose murder over losing control.
