Thomas Vale did not run.<\/p>\n
That surprised everyone.<\/p>\n
When Portuguese authorities located him at a coastal apartment outside Cascais, he opened the door, identified himself, and asked whether the request came from the United States.<\/p>\n
He had been expecting them.<\/p>\n
The news reached Rebecca through Daniel.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew the investigation reopened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cOr he knew eventually someone would find the second trail.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas retained counsel immediately.<\/p>\n
He denied ordering Rebecca\u2019s confinement.<\/p>\n
He denied hiring Marlene.<\/p>\n
He denied participating in violence of any kind.<\/p>\n
He did not, however, deny knowing the financial scheme existed.<\/p>\n
That distinction became important.<\/p>\n
Through his attorney, Thomas offered to provide records in exchange for negotiations over possible charges.<\/p>\n
Rebecca read the summary twice.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants immunity?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot full immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cReduced exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor stealing money?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor participating in concealment and failing to report crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca dropped the paper.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds very different from what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s his version.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe fed information to people who threatened my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe says he did not.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew where she went to school.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn\u2019t proof.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew I stored evidence outside the company.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStill not proof he told Marlene.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca pushed away from the table.<\/p>\n
Daniel waited until her anger settled.<\/p>\n
Then he said, \u201cThere is something else.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVale claims Marlene was never supposed to imprison you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca stared at him.<\/p>\n
For several seconds she could not process the sentence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is that supposed to mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe says the original plan was intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSurveillance. Threats. Pressure to resign. Pressure to certify revised reports.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca laughed once.<\/p>\n
There was no humor in it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow comforting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe says your confinement was an escalation he did not authorize.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid not authorize.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She repeated the phrase as if tasting something bitter.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo now the man who helped create the trap wants credit because someone else tightened it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel did not answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does Marlene say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s where this gets complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlene had refused most interviews since her conviction.<\/p>\n
Now, after being told federal investigators were reopening the broader case, she requested a meeting.<\/p>\n
Not with prosecutors first.<\/p>\n
With Rebecca.<\/p>\n
The request was denied.<\/p>\n
Marlene tried again.<\/p>\n
She said she possessed information about Thomas Vale that she would reveal only if Rebecca heard her explanation.<\/p>\n
Daniel advised against it.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement advised against it.<\/p>\n
Rebecca refused immediately.<\/p>\n
Then Sophie learned about the request.<\/p>\n
Not from Rebecca.<\/p>\n
From a television report.<\/p>\n
The reopened investigation had leaked.<\/p>\n
A local station mentioned that Marlene was seeking cooperation with prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Sophie walked into the kitchen holding her phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe wants to talk to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca looked up sharply.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere did you see that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s online.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGive me the phone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not twelve.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen don\u2019t act like I am.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
Sophie was sixteen now.<\/p>\n
Old enough to search her own name.<\/p>\n
Old enough to understand more than Rebecca wished she did.<\/p>\n
\u201cSit down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie did.<\/p>\n
Rebecca explained what she knew.<\/p>\n
When she finished, Sophie asked, \u201cAre you going?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause she kidnapped me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe controlled you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe kept us apart.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bluntness of Sophie\u2019s answer silenced her.<\/p>\n
Sophie folded her arms.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m asking why you don\u2019t want to hear what she says.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause she lies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we\u2019ll know she\u2019s lying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. That is not how people like Marlene work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do they work?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey mix truth with things that make you doubt yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie looked down.<\/p>\n
That description had landed somewhere old.<\/p>\n
Rebecca regretted the words immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. You\u2019re right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neither spoke for a moment.<\/p>\n
Then Sophie asked, \u201cWhat if she knows something about Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe investigators can ask.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if she only tells you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen she can keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie looked toward the window.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t mean that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca wanted to.<\/p>\n
But Sophie knew her.<\/p>\n
Three days later, Rebecca agreed to a controlled interview.<\/p>\n
There were conditions.<\/p>\n
Marlene would remain behind glass.<\/p>\n
No physical contact.<\/p>\n
No private conversation.<\/p>\n
Federal agents would record everything.<\/p>\n
Rebecca could stop at any moment.<\/p>\n
Sophie would not attend.<\/p>\n
On that point Rebecca refused compromise.<\/p>\n
The prison meeting room looked deliberately colorless.<\/p>\n
Marlene appeared older than Rebecca remembered. Her hair, once carefully styled, was streaked with gray. The confidence remained, but prison had stripped away the polished surfaces that once made her intimidating.<\/p>\n
Rebecca sat on one side of the glass.<\/p>\n
Marlene sat on the other.<\/p>\n
For several seconds neither woman spoke.<\/p>\n
Then Marlene lifted the receiver.<\/p>\n
Rebecca did the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look well,\u201d Marlene said.<\/p>\n
Rebecca almost hung up.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlene\u2019s expression tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, you were.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Rebecca continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wanted this meeting. Talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlene looked toward the agent behind Rebecca.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas Vale is telling them I went rogue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what I heard.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s lying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout which part?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca waited.<\/p>\n
Marlene leaned closer to the glass.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hired me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca felt no surprise.<\/p>\n
\u201cDirectly?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Through an intermediary.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cName.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPeter Caine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca knew it.<\/p>\n
Caine had been a consultant attached to the company\u2019s compliance division. He had died four years earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cConvenient.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was alive when this happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKeep going.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas knew you were copying documents. He knew you weren\u2019t going to sign the revised audit statements. He wanted you frightened enough to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat part matches his story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlene\u2019s mouth twisted.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause he thinks admitting to threats makes him look less guilty of what came after.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat came after was your decision?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s grip tightened around the receiver.<\/p>\n
\u201cCareful.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not saying I\u2019m innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would be a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI followed orders. I also did things I wasn\u2019t ordered to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca stared through the glass.<\/p>\n
Marlene took a breath.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour confinement was ordered.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBy Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough Caine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou had something they couldn\u2019t find.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe flash drive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s heartbeat accelerated.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you take it from the school?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho did?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca nearly laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou expect me to believe that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know there was a drive until after you were already downstairs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why did you keep asking me where the backup was?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Caine told me to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca remembered.<\/p>\n
Marlene standing near the basement steps.<\/p>\n
Tell me where you put the copies.<\/p>\n
Rebecca refusing.<\/p>\n
Marlene cutting off the lights.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas says you exceeded your instructions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlene\u2019s eyes hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas sat in clean offices while other people did his dirty work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat does not answer the question.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you exceed them?\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlene looked down.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The admission was unexpectedly quiet.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn what way?\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlene did not answer immediately.<\/p>\n
Rebecca felt the room contract around her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was told to keep you isolated until you gave up the backup.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was not told to hurt Sophie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s stomach turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou bruised her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou frightened her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou told her I was sick. You made her think she would lose me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Each answer seemed to cost Marlene more than the last.<\/p>\n
Rebecca felt no pity.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you want from me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is another lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI want them to stop Thomas from rewriting what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy do you care?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause he chose me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca stared.<\/p>\n
Marlene leaned closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe chose someone with a record. Someone desperate for money. Someone nobody would believe over an executive. He built distance between himself and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou made your own choices.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not make me part of your excuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen tell the agents what you know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen this meeting is over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca started to lower the receiver.<\/p>\n
Marlene said, \u201cHe knew Chloe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca froze.<\/p>\n
Slowly, she raised the receiver again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlene\u2019s face changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew your daughter\u2019s friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cChloe?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw her name in the notes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s skin went cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat notes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInstructions about Sophie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExplain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlene looked toward the guard, then back.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaine gave me a file. School schedule. Teachers. Pickup routines. People Sophie trusted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca could barely speak.<\/p>\n
\u201cChloe was eight.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would they care about her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Sophie talked to her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s thoughts flashed backward.<\/p>\n
The fair.<\/p>\n
Chloe noticing.<\/p>\n
Chloe asking questions.<\/p>\n
Chloe standing between Sophie and Marlene.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas Chloe being watched?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI swear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca slammed her palm against the counter.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou do not swear anything to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlene flinched.<\/p>\n
It was the first time Rebecca had seen her flinch.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did the file say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat Sophie spent time with Chloe. That if Sophie said anything unusual, adults around Chloe might become a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAdults meaning me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s breath shortened.<\/p>\n
At the time, I had believed my intervention began at the fair.<\/p>\n
Someone else had apparently considered me relevant before I even understood there was danger.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Thomas create the file?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know who created it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said he knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCaine said Thomas reviewed all exposure risks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca went still.<\/p>\n
Exposure risks.<\/p>\n
Two children.<\/p>\n
A teacher.<\/p>\n
A mother at a school fair.<\/p>\n
Reduced to columns on a risk assessment.<\/p>\n
She wanted to leave.<\/p>\n
Instead, she asked one last question.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is the flash drive?\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlene\u2019s eyes shifted.<\/p>\n
Rebecca saw it.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never saw the drive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter you were rescued, Caine panicked.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said Thomas had taken care of the school problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s mouth went dry.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat exact words?\u201d<\/p>\n
Marlene looked at the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said, \u2018Vale got there first.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca remained completely still.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou remember that exactly?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you tell investigators before?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Caine told me if I gave them Thomas, Thomas would give them everything on me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were already convicted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot then.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca looked through the glass at the woman who had held her prisoner.<\/p>\n
The person she had hated most for years was still guilty.<\/p>\n
Still responsible.<\/p>\n
Still capable of cruelty.<\/p>\n
But Marlene had never been the whole machine.<\/p>\n
Rebecca finally understood the shape of the trap.<\/p>\n
Thomas gathered intelligence.<\/p>\n
Caine issued instructions.<\/p>\n
Marlene enforced them.<\/p>\n
Others moved the money.<\/p>\n
And someone had removed the backup from Sophie\u2019s school.<\/p>\n
The system survived because each person knew only enough to perform one part.<\/p>\n
Except perhaps Thomas.<\/p>\n
When Rebecca returned home, Sophie was waiting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell?\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca set down her bag.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe gave them useful information.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWas she lying?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably about some things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie studied her face.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did she say about me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca hesitated.<\/p>\n
Sophie saw it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said they had information about your routines.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie\u2019s expression emptied.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSchool. People you trusted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cChloe?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie sat down.<\/p>\n
For a long moment she said nothing.<\/p>\n
Then she whispered, \u201cThey knew Chloe might notice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca sat beside her.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie looked toward the hallway.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Marlene used to pick me up, she\u2019d ask who I talked to that day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s eyes closed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought she was being normal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were a child.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe asked about Chloe a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did she ask?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Chloe\u2019s mom was nice. If Chloe told her mom everything. If I ever slept at Chloe\u2019s house.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca felt nausea rise.<\/p>\n
Sophie continued slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told her you liked Ms. Laura.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca stared at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s when she started saying I shouldn\u2019t bother other families with our problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
The memory had been buried because, at eight, Sophie had not known it mattered.<\/p>\n
Now it joined everything else.<\/p>\n
That night Rebecca called the investigators.<\/p>\n
They reopened every interview from Sophie\u2019s school.<\/p>\n
Old security records were pulled from archives.<\/p>\n
Visitor logs were examined.<\/p>\n
A retired receptionist remembered a man arriving the day after Rebecca disappeared.<\/p>\n
He had said he was from the company\u2019s legal department.<\/p>\n
Polite.<\/p>\n
Gray-haired.<\/p>\n
Professional.<\/p>\n
He claimed Rebecca had authorized him to retrieve emergency documents.<\/p>\n
The receptionist could not identify him with certainty after so many years.<\/p>\n
Then agents showed her an old employee photograph.<\/p>\n
Thomas Vale.<\/p>\n
She stared for several seconds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat could be him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCould?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWould you testify to it?\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d testify that he looks like the man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not enough by itself.<\/p>\n
But something.<\/p>\n
Then investigators located a piece of evidence no one expected.<\/p>\n
The school had upgraded its security system shortly after the incident. Most old footage had been overwritten.<\/p>\n
Most.<\/p>\n
One backup drive survived in a district archive because technicians had copied a week of video while testing the new system.<\/p>\n
Agents recovered the date Rebecca disappeared.<\/p>\n
They recovered the following morning.<\/p>\n
At 9:14 a.m., a man entered the school office wearing a dark suit.<\/p>\n
The camera angle showed him in profile.<\/p>\n
He remained inside twelve minutes.<\/p>\n
At 9:27, he left carrying a large white envelope.<\/p>\n
Thomas Vale.<\/p>\n
Rebecca watched the footage in silence.<\/p>\n
Daniel sat beside her.<\/p>\n
No one needed to say what it meant.<\/p>\n
Thomas had not merely known the backup existed.<\/p>\n
He had personally removed it.<\/p>\n
And if he still possessed it, then the second ledger was not lost.<\/p>\n
It was evidence he had spent years making sure no one else could see.<\/p>\n
Thomas Vale did not run. That surprised everyone. When Portuguese authorities located him at a coastal apartment outside Cascais, he opened the door, identified himself, and asked whether the request … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chapter-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}