“Why would she start recording eleven minutes earlier?”“That is the question.”
The gate supervisor stepped closer. “There’s something else. She had another passenger’s name written in her notes app.”“Whose?”
The supervisor looked directly at Elias.**“Maya Bennett.”**
Elias froze.Until that moment, he had known Maya only by the first name Serena used.
“Maya Bennett?”“Yes.”
“Was that name visible on the reservation to another passenger?”“No.”
“On her boarding pass?”“Not unless Eleanor saw it directly.”
Elias returned to First Class and sat across from Maya.“Your last name is Bennett.”
Maya’s fingers stopped moving along the cane handle.“Yes.”
“Eleanor had your full name written in her phone before boarding.”For the first time since the confrontation began, Maya looked genuinely afraid.
Elias leaned closer.“You knew her?”
“No.”“Then why would she know you?”
Maya inhaled slowly.“Because thirty-one years ago, I testified in a civil case involving her family’s company.”