Chapter 8: Florence’s Statement
Florence gave a recorded statement from the private room, voice thin, facts hard.
She named the old Mr. Warren. She named cash envelopes. She named Charlee’s mother as a girl told to never approach the front gate. She described Julian as a young man who had once found out and called Charlee’s mother a stain. Harlan’s pen paused on stain. Florence did not.
Charlee listened from a chair in the corner because Casey and a child advocate allowed it in measured doses. When Florence finished, Charlee asked, “Was my mom a secret like the password?”
Spencer knelt to her height. “Your mother was a person. Secrets were what other people did to her. You are not a secret in this house.”
Florence’s eyes shone. “About time a Warren said that out loud.”
Outside the hospital, Julian’s attorney issued a statement about cooperation and misunderstanding. Julian himself stayed off the property. The board of Spencer’s primary company requested a quiet briefing. Spencer gave them a shorter version than the tabloids would eventually invent: stolen genetic material, an abandoned infant, active investigation, temporary guardianship, no comment on relatives. Markets twitched. Spencer did not.
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