Once we understood that Daniel had identified me years before Alicia created Lakeview Holdings, the investigation changed direction again.<\/p>\n
Alicia was no longer the beginning.<\/p>\n
Bruce was not the beginning.<\/p>\n
Even Dr. Foster was not the beginning.<\/p>\n
Daniel had built relationships around vulnerable property owners for years, using whatever combination of family pressure, professional access and fabricated concern suited each case.<\/p>\n
The backup drive did not prove every suspicion.<\/p>\n
But it gave Bennett a map.<\/p>\n
Seventeen property folders.<\/p>\n
Nine completed transactions.<\/p>\n
Three abandoned.<\/p>\n
Four active.<\/p>\n
Mine was one of the active files.<\/p>\n
Eleanor Price another.<\/p>\n
Two others belonged to older men living alone.<\/p>\n
Bennett's team contacted them immediately.<\/p>\n
One had already been approached by a nephew about moving into assisted living.<\/p>\n
The other had received an unsolicited offer on his farm from a company connected to Crescent Advisory.<\/p>\n
The pattern was no longer theoretical.<\/p>\n
That afternoon, warrants began moving through the system.<\/p>\n
Daniel's former office records.<\/p>\n
Bruce's business.<\/p>\n
Lakeview.<\/p>\n
Crescent.<\/p>\n
Lisa's work communications.<\/p>\n
Ruth's financial accounts.<\/p>\n
Bennett warned me not to expect dramatic arrests within hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cReal investigations are slow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStories have misled me.\u201d<\/p>\n
She almost smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cReal paperwork is less cinematic.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at the mountain of documents covering Samuel's conference table.<\/p>\n
\u201cI disagree.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark arrived shortly after three.<\/p>\n
He had been interviewed separately about his knowledge of Lakeview.<\/p>\n
When he entered, he looked at me before anyone else.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan I sit?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don't need permission.\u201d<\/p>\n
He sat across from me.<\/p>\n
Karen showed him Daniel's nineteen-month-old memo.<\/p>\n
Son financially pressured. DIL potentially cooperative.<\/p>\n
Mark read it twice.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew about our debt?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently,\u201d Karen said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
No one knew.<\/p>\n
Then Mark's face changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we refinanced.\u201d<\/p>\n
The refinance.<\/p>\n
Bruce had connected them to someone two years earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho handled the loan?\u201d Samuel asked.<\/p>\n
Mark pulled out his phone.<\/p>\n
He searched old email.<\/p>\n
\u201cNorth Valley Lending.\u201d<\/p>\n
Karen typed.<\/p>\n
Within minutes, she found the connection.<\/p>\n
North Valley's former compliance consultant:<\/p>\n
Crescent Advisory.<\/p>\n
Daniel's brother-in-law's company.<\/p>\n
My son's financial distress had passed through a business connected to Daniel.<\/p>\n
That was how they knew.<\/p>\n
Mark stared at the screen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey saw everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLikely enough,\u201d Samuel said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIncome. Debt. Home equity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey knew we needed money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then Daniel wrote that Alicia might cooperate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody answered.<\/p>\n
Mark covered his face.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I was failing privately.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sentence hurt.<\/p>\n
I had spent years assuming money would protect him from shame.<\/p>\n
Instead the secrecy around that money had made him vulnerable.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn't you tell me how bad it was?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
He looked up.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause you'd already helped too much.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat never stopped you before.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
He accepted the accusation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause every time you gave us money, I felt smaller.\u201d<\/p>\n
I had not expected that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy keep taking it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause feeling small was easier than admitting I couldn't maintain the life we'd built.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sounded painfully human.<\/p>\n
Not noble.<\/p>\n
Not monstrous.<\/p>\n
Human.<\/p>\n
Alicia had used entitlement.<\/p>\n
Mark had used avoidance.<\/p>\n
Daniel had used both.<\/p>\n
Samuel said, \u201cPredatory schemes rarely create every weakness they exploit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey just find the cracks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Karen returned to the drive.<\/p>\n
One folder contained training notes.<\/p>\n
Not formal training.<\/p>\n
Advice Daniel had apparently written for Bruce years earlier.<\/p>\n
Identify decision-maker.<\/p>\n
Identify emotional leverage.<\/p>\n
Determine urgency.<\/p>\n
Avoid direct confrontation with owner if family route exists.<\/p>\n
Establish incapacity documentation only if needed.<\/p>\n
I stared at the last line.<\/p>\n
Only if needed.<\/p>\n
My false dementia had been Plan B.<\/p>\n
Mark's love had been Plan A.<\/p>\n
I thought of the anonymous threat.<\/p>\n
If you care about your son, stop digging.<\/p>\n
Same method.<\/p>\n
Family leverage.<\/p>\n
Daniel did not invent new strategies.<\/p>\n
He repeated what worked.<\/p>\n
Karen scrolled farther.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are audio files.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone looked up.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDozens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most were labeled by initials.<\/p>\n
Some appeared to be recorded phone conversations.<\/p>\n
Bennett instructed us not to play them until investigators confirmed handling procedures.<\/p>\n
One filename caught my eye.<\/p>\n
MC_FOSTER_FINAL.<\/p>\n
Margaret Cole.<\/p>\n
Another:<\/p>\n
RH_MEETING.<\/p>\n
Raymond Hayes.<\/p>\n
My heart began pounding.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a recording of Raymond?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPlay it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Karen hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cDorothy\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bennett was contacted.<\/p>\n
She authorized a forensic copy to be reviewed with us present after the original was preserved.<\/p>\n
It took nearly an hour.<\/p>\n
Longest hour of my week.<\/p>\n
At 4:26, Karen pressed play.<\/p>\n
Static.<\/p>\n
Restaurant sounds.<\/p>\n
Then a man's voice.<\/p>\n
Dr. Foster.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can't keep signing these.\u201d<\/p>\n
My hands tightened.<\/p>\n
Another voice.<\/p>\n
Daniel.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou aren't being asked to diagnose anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou're asking me to say they're impaired.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe're documenting family concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat's not what the letters say.\u201d<\/p>\n
A pause.<\/p>\n
Then Daniel:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou owe people money, Evan.\u201d<\/p>\n
Foster answered quietly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want those people calling your daughter?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
My stomach turned.<\/p>\n
Then another voice entered.<\/p>\n
Raymond.<\/p>\n
Older.<\/p>\n
Weak.<\/p>\n
But unmistakable.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat's enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stopped breathing.<\/p>\n
Six years disappeared.<\/p>\n
Raymond was in the room.<\/p>\n
Not memory.<\/p>\n
Not photograph.<\/p>\n
Voice.<\/p>\n
Samuel reached toward me but stopped.<\/p>\n
On the recording, Daniel said, \u201cRaymond, this doesn't concern you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt concerns Margaret.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe isn't your family.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe asked for help.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen give her a casserole.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was Daniel.<\/p>\n
Cold amusement.<\/p>\n
Raymond answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou forged illness to steal her land.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room around me vanished.<\/p>\n
I heard only my husband.<\/p>\n
Daniel said, \u201cBe careful.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour health isn't good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think cancer makes me stupid?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. I think it makes your priorities strange.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy priority is making sure you don't do this to anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then Foster spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cI'll testify.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel's tone changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou'll lose your license.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI deserve to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou'll lose your house.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't care.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour daughter might.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Then Raymond:<\/p>\n
\u201cThreaten him again and I go to police tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
The recording ended abruptly.<\/p>\n
I stared at the computer.<\/p>\n
Samuel whispered, \u201cHe had him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRaymond had enough to start an investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why didn't he?\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody answered.<\/p>\n
Karen checked the metadata.<\/p>\n
The recording had been created on Daniel's device.<\/p>\n
Not Raymond's.<\/p>\n
Daniel had recorded the conversation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would Daniel keep this?\u201d Mark asked.<\/p>\n
Samuel answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeverage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Against Foster.<\/p>\n
Perhaps against Raymond.<\/p>\n
But Raymond died before Daniel needed to use it.<\/p>\n
Bennett requested the full file immediately.<\/p>\n
Then Karen found something else.<\/p>\n
An audio recording dated three days later.<\/p>\n
RH_CALL.<\/p>\n
We played it.<\/p>\n
Daniel's voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cRaymond.\u201d<\/p>\n
My husband sounded exhausted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMargaret has decided not to pursue anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat's a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don't know what she decided.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke to her this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
A pause.<\/p>\n
Then Daniel:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou should focus on Dorothy.\u201d<\/p>\n
My throat tightened.<\/p>\n
Raymond's voice hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou stay away from my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe doesn't know anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd she never needs to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Daniel had given him a choice.<\/p>\n
Back away or bring me into danger.<\/p>\n
Raymond said, \u201cIf anything happens to her\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel interrupted.<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing is going to happen to Dorothy unless you make this bigger than it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
The recording ended.<\/p>\n
Mark whispered, \u201cDad stopped because of you.\u201d<\/p>\n
I couldn't speak.<\/p>\n
For years I had been angry that Raymond left me ignorant.<\/p>\n
Now I understood at least part of why.<\/p>\n
Daniel had used me as leverage before he ever used Mark against me.<\/p>\n
Same method.<\/p>\n
Different generation.<\/p>\n
I finally said, \u201cWhat happened after that call?\u201d<\/p>\n
Karen checked dates.<\/p>\n
Margaret died four days later.<\/p>\n
Raymond entered the hospital two days after Margaret's death.<\/p>\n
His cancer had advanced aggressively.<\/p>\n
He never returned home for more than short periods.<\/p>\n
Within months, he was gone.<\/p>\n
Daniel had not needed to silence him.<\/p>\n
Illness did it.<\/p>\n
Probably self-resolving.<\/p>\n
I hated that phrase more every time I remembered it.<\/p>\n
Mark wiped his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad was protecting you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you angry?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked surprised.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand why he did it. I'm still angry he didn't let me choose.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel nodded slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat distinction matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does.\u201d<\/p>\n
Because I had spent this entire week learning that good intentions do not automatically justify taking away another person's agency.<\/p>\n
Even Raymond's.<\/p>\n
Even mine.<\/p>\n
Karen continued examining the drive.<\/p>\n
At 5:10, she found a folder labeled WITNESS.<\/p>\n
Inside was a scanned statement.<\/p>\n
Unsigned.<\/p>\n
Margaret Cole had apparently dictated it before her death.<\/p>\n
She described Daniel, Foster and the realtor pressuring her son.<\/p>\n
She described being told that refusing the sale would prove she lacked judgment.<\/p>\n
She described staff at her residence repeatedly documenting confusion she denied experiencing.<\/p>\n
And she named one employee who believed her.<\/p>\n
A nursing assistant.<\/p>\n
Caroline Vega.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs she alive?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
Karen searched.<\/p>\n
Nothing obvious.<\/p>\n
Samuel remembered the name.<\/p>\n
\u201cRaymond mentioned a nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn conversation. Once.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat someone at Margaret's residence had seen things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy isn't she in his notes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe may be.\u201d<\/p>\n
We searched the recovered papers.<\/p>\n
Nothing.<\/p>\n
Then Mark noticed handwriting along the back of a photograph.<\/p>\n
C.V. moved after Margaret. Tucson? Sister Rosa.<\/p>\n
Caroline Vega.<\/p>\n
Moved after Margaret.<\/p>\n
Perhaps frightened.<\/p>\n
Perhaps pushed out.<\/p>\n
Perhaps simply gone.<\/p>\n
Bennett's team began searching.<\/p>\n
Two hours later, they found a likely match.<\/p>\n
Caroline Vega Morales.<\/p>\n
Age sixty-one.<\/p>\n
Living in Arizona.<\/p>\n
Former nursing assistant.<\/p>\n
Same employment history.<\/p>\n
A phone number.<\/p>\n
Bennett called.<\/p>\n
No answer.<\/p>\n
Left a message.<\/p>\n
We waited.<\/p>\n
At 7:42, while I sat in Samuel's office eating a sandwich I could not taste, Bennett's phone rang.<\/p>\n
Arizona number.<\/p>\n
She answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaroline Vega Morales?\u201d<\/p>\n
A woman's voice responded cautiously.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy name is Detective Laura Bennett. I'm calling regarding Margaret Cole.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Then the woman said something that made Bennett straighten.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wondered when someone would finally call.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bennett put the phone on speaker after obtaining permission.<\/p>\n
I leaned closer.<\/p>\n
Caroline's voice trembled slightly.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs Raymond Hayes still alive?\u201d<\/p>\n
My throat closed.<\/p>\n
Bennett looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
A long silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI'm sorry,\u201d Caroline said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe tried.\u201d<\/p>\n
I spoke before anyone could stop me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is Dorothy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cRaymond's Dorothy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Caroline inhaled sharply.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe talked about you constantly.\u201d<\/p>\n
I pressed my fingers against my mouth.<\/p>\n
Samuel looked away.<\/p>\n
I asked, \u201cWhat happened to Margaret?\u201d<\/p>\n
Caroline did not answer immediately.<\/p>\n
When she did, her voice changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cMargaret wasn't confused.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was scared.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf Daniel?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf several people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you see what happened when she fell?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Bennett said, \u201cMs. Morales, if you witnessed a crime, we can arrange a formal interview and local law-enforcement support.\u201d<\/p>\n
Caroline whispered, \u201cI didn't see her fall.\u201d<\/p>\n
My hope sank.<\/p>\n
Then she continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I saw who went into the stairwell with her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Every person in the room became still.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
Caroline began crying.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told Raymond. He said he would make sure someone listened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho was it?\u201d<\/p>\n
She took several breaths.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaniel Dalton.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel closed his eyes.<\/p>\n
Caroline continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe came to the facility that afternoon. Margaret was furious. She said she was going to court. I saw them arguing near the service stairwell.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was called to another room.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long were you gone?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I came back, Margaret was at the bottom of the stairs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere was Daniel?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGone.\u201d<\/p>\n
No proof he pushed her.<\/p>\n
But he had been there.<\/p>\n
Something nobody had apparently known.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid police interview you?\u201d Bennett asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you tell them?\u201d<\/p>\n
Caroline became quiet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat I didn't see anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Daniel found me first.\u201d<\/p>\n
My skin prickled.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew where my sister lived. He knew my immigration status had been complicated years earlier. He said Margaret's death was an accident and I could destroy my family by inventing stories.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you stayed quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy move?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was terrified.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you keep anything?\u201d<\/p>\n
Another pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bennett leaned closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMargaret gave me an envelope that morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was inside?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never opened it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you still have it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Twenty years of silence seemed to gather around that word.<\/p>\n
Caroline corrected herself.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot twenty. Six years. But it feels longer.\u201d<\/p>\n
I understood.<\/p>\n
Bennett asked where the envelope was.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a safe-deposit box.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you retrieve it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does the outside say?\u201d<\/p>\n
Caroline inhaled.<\/p>\n
\u201cGive to Raymond Hayes if anything happens to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
Raymond had never received it.<\/p>\n
Margaret died.<\/p>\n
Caroline fled.<\/p>\n
Raymond became too sick to continue.<\/p>\n
For six years, the envelope waited in Arizona while Daniel built new files and new companies and new plans.<\/p>\n
Including mine.<\/p>\n
I opened my eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaroline.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease don't open it alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
She understood immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won't.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bennett began arranging coordination with Arizona authorities.<\/p>\n
Mark sat beside me.<\/p>\n
Samuel stared at Raymond's photograph on his phone.<\/p>\n
The investigation had finally reached someone outside Daniel's network.<\/p>\n
A witness he had frightened but never controlled completely.<\/p>\n
A woman who had preserved the last thing Margaret wanted Raymond to see.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow that envelope would be opened.<\/p>\n
And whatever Margaret Cole had hidden inside had survived longer than the people who tried to make her disappear into the word confused.<\/p>\n
Once we understood that Daniel had identified me years before Alicia created Lakeview Holdings, the investigation changed direction again. Alicia was no longer the beginning. Bruce was not the beginning. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7990","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\/7990","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=7990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8042,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions\/8042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}