Chapter 5 - The Price of Saying SomethingRosa discovered that losing her job was only the beginning.
Employment agencies stopped returning her calls.
A wealthy household withdrew an interview after contacting the Whitmore administration.
Someone was describing Rosa as unsafe around children.
Maya experienced the same problem.
Lydia instructed both women to preserve every message, screenshot and document.
Rosa then told her attorney about the invoices she had seen.
The company listed on them was CRESCENT RESTORATION LLC.
One invoice supposedly covered expensive work at the Whitmore mansion.
Another described almost identical work at a company property.
Rosa knew the mansion project had never happened because she controlled household deliveries.
No equipment had arrived.
No restoration crew had entered.
Lydia warned her not to assume the invoices were fraudulent.
But she wrote down the company name.
At the mansion, Grant learned that Celeste had called the security technician the evening before the pool incident.
She had asked one very specific question:
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Would the camera interruption appear as a blank recording or simply as missing footage?
Grant could no longer pretend that was a normal privacy question.
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