Chapter 9 - The Arrest Was Only the Beginning—Because the Man Behind the Entire Scheme Had Been Hiding in Plain SightThomas confessed.
Not immediately.
But enough.
He admitted that Laura had introduced him to Victor.
He admitted that Richard discovered the fraud.
He admitted that the divorce had been manipulated.
But he denied killing Richard.
Then investigators found the missing piece.
A security recording from a gas station.
The night Richard died.
Laura's car appeared behind his.
Then another car.
Victor's.
Richard had been followed.
The police found the vehicle abandoned three miles from the accident scene.
Inside was evidence.
Richard's blood.
A broken phone.
And fingerprints.
Victor's.
But Victor was still missing.
Then, three days later, the bank manager called.
“Mrs. Bennett, someone attempted to access your account.”
“Who?”
“They used a forged authorization.”
“Who signed it?”
The manager sent me a copy.
I recognized the signature.
Richard's.
But Richard was dead.
Someone had forged it.
Michael looked at the document.
“This means Victor still has access to someone inside the banking system.”
I felt exhausted.
“How does this end?”
Michael looked at me.
“You stop running.”
So I did.
We created a trap.
The bank announced that the account was being transferred.
The information was false.
We knew someone would react.
They did.
That night, the alarm at the old house went off.
Samuel and police surrounded the property.
A man entered through the basement.
Victor.
He made it halfway upstairs before officers arrested him.
As they handcuffed him, he looked directly at me.
“You have no idea what Richard did.”
I stepped closer.
“What did he do?”
Victor smiled.
“He didn't just protect you.”
He leaned forward.
“He ruined everything to make sure you inherited it.”
Then he was taken away.
I stood in the hallway.
For the first time, I understood.
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Richard hadn't been saving me from poverty.
He had been preparing me to inherit an empire.
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