“He did not just plan to divorce you. He planned…” Pamela hesitated. “What did he to kill you after you gave birth to make it look like an accident or a postpartum crisis?”

Emily felt her blood run cold.

“Are you kidding me?”

“No. He has contacts in the criminal world. People who know how to eliminate obstacles. Ethan said it was simpler. No need to divide assets in the divorce.”

“And you kept quiet.”

“I thought he was not serious, that they were just words.”

“And when did you realize he was serious?”

“When he showed me pictures of those people, he told me how they worked. Then I got scared, but it was too late. I was his accomplice.”

Emily was in shock. So, he not only planned to rob her, but to kill her, and she had been miraculously saved by discovering his plans at the airport.

“Pamela, do you have proof?”

“Text messages with those people. Ethan thought he had deleted them all, but I took screenshots. I saved them on a USB drive.”

“Where is the drive?”

“At my house. In a box on my dresser. A small pink one.”

“Why are you telling me this?”

“Because I realized that Ethan is a monster. He used me just like he used you and everyone else. And when he no longer needed me, he would have discarded me, too.”

“And your husband, Victor.”

“Victor is a good man. I was an idiot to betray him. Now I want to at least redeem part of my guilt.”

“What do you want in return?”

“Tell Victor I am sorry and let him know the truth about the child.”

After the meeting with Pamela, Emily went straight to see Detective Vargas. The new information radically changed the case.

“A contract killing?” Vargas asked. “Are you sure?”

“Pamela is willing to testify and has evidence.”

“Then this is not just fraud. It is an organized crime group. We need to conduct an additional operation.”

Vargas immediately organized a search of Pamela’s apartment. Victor let them in and showed them where the USB drive was. There indeed they found the text messages from Ethan with two individuals, Miguel Moreno and Dennis Castano, men with criminal records.

“We need to solve the problem with the wife radically,” Ethan wrote. “After she gives birth, she is depressed. A tragedy would not be surprising.”

“Understood. The payment? $200,000, half upfront, half after,” Moreno replied.

“Agreed.”