PART 2
Mason read the first line again until the words stopped moving in front
of him.
“Son, if you’re reading this, Victoria has already started lying to
you.”
His knees felt weak.
Walter, the groundskeeper, guided him toward an old wooden bench beneath
the cypress trees.
Mason sat down with the brass key pressed into his palm.
The letter continued in Arthur’s familiar handwriting.
His father wrote that he had discovered serious inconsistencies in the
evidence used to convict Mason.
Payments blamed on Mason had continued after Mason was already locked
inside Stonebridge Correctional Facility.
Arthur had also begun finding company documents missing from his office.
Whenever he questioned Victoria, she told him his memory was failing.
Whenever he questioned Travis, his stepson blamed clerical mistakes.
Arthur wrote that he no longer knew whom to trust inside Reed Industrial
Supply.
So he had quietly copied records.
He had rented Storage Unit 108 under a private billing arrangement.
