Chapter 10 - Victor Confessed That My Grandfather Had Started Everything Before I Was Even BornVictor finally told the truth.
The real mastermind wasn't him.
It was my grandfather.
He had built the network decades earlier.
He had manipulated Victor.
He had manipulated my father.
He had manipulated Vincent's father.
And when my father discovered the truth, he tried to expose him.
That's why he disappeared.
My grandfather had faked his own death years ago.
He had been hiding overseas.
But he was back.
His name was Arthur Bennett.
My mother's father.
I couldn't believe it.
“My grandfather is alive?”
My father nodded.
“Yes.”
“Why would he do this?”
“Power.”
Vincent looked at the evidence.
“Where is he?”
Victor smiled.
“You'll never find him.”
Vincent leaned closer.
“We already did.”
The photograph had a location.
An old estate.
We went there with federal agents.
Arthur was waiting.
He wasn't hiding.
He was sitting beside a fireplace.
When he saw me, he smiled.
“Leora.”
I stepped behind my father.
He laughed.
“You look just like your mother.”
My father stepped forward.
“You destroyed our family.”
Arthur shook his head.
“No.”
“You did.”
“No.”
Arthur looked at me.
“Family destroys itself.”
Vincent stepped beside my father.
“You're finished.”
Arthur laughed.
“You think the law can touch me?”
“Yes.”
Vincent handed the agents the complete ledger.
Every name.
Every transaction.
Every crime.
Arthur's face changed.
“You found it.”
My father nodded.
“No.”
Leora found it.
Arthur looked at me.
I didn't understand.
But then I remembered the book.
The little lantern.
The hidden key.
The story my father had read.
The ledger wasn't hidden in a place.
It was hidden in a memory.
The book contained the clue.
And I had unknowingly remembered it all along.
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Arthur was arrested.
For the first time in my life, I felt safe.
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