Chapter 7 - Victor Offered to Testify Against Kane—But His Price Was the One Thing I Could Never Give HimVictor was already in federal custody.
When I visited him, he looked smaller.
Not weaker.
Just smaller.
The arrogance was gone.
“You need me.”
“No.”
He laughed bitterly.
“You need my testimony.”
I sat across from him.
“Against Kane.”
“I can tell you everything.”
“Then talk.”
“I want immunity.”
“You're not getting it.”
He leaned forward.
“Then Emily dies.”
The room went silent.
I stood.
Victor smiled.
“You think she's safe?”
I stared at him.
“Kane has people everywhere.”
He slid a photograph across the table.
Emily leaving the hospital.
A man following her.
Another photograph.
My office.
Another.
My apartment.
Victor whispered:
“You can't protect her forever.”
I wanted to break his jaw.
Instead, I sat back down.
“What do you want?”
“Freedom.”
“No.”
“Then Kane wins.”
I stared at him.
Finally, I offered a deal.
Victor would testify.
He would surrender every asset.
He would provide every password.
Every name.
Every account.
In return, I would ask the prosecutor for the maximum reduction allowed by law.
He agreed.
His testimony was explosive.
He revealed that Kane had ordered the abuse.
He revealed the shell companies.
The bribed officials.
The fake contracts.
The hidden warehouses.
But then he gave us something else.
A location.
Kane's private residence.
I looked at Emily.
She was listening remotely.
Victor looked at her through the glass.
“I'm sorry.”
Emily didn't answer.
He lowered his head.
“I loved you.”
Emily finally spoke.
“You loved owning me.”
Victor closed his eyes.
She walked away.
That was the moment I knew my sister was finally free.
But Kane had one final card.
He had kidnapped someone.
Someone we hadn't expected.
My mother had left behind a childhood friend.
An elderly woman named Grace.
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Kane had taken her.
And he knew she was the last person who could explain what happened the night my parents died.
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