🔥 CHAPTER 5 — Five Years Later, the Prison Gates Opened... But No One Was Waiting
Five years passed.
The story that had once dominated every news channel slowly faded from the public eye.
People forgot the headlines.
They forgot the courtroom.
But Michael and Elena never forgot the sound of their father's wheelchair rolling toward the edge of the cliff.
It haunted every dream.
Every sleepless night.
Every echo inside the prison walls.
Michael was no longer the confident businessman who believed money could solve everything.
His hair had begun to gray.
Deep scars covered his knuckles after years of surviving violent inmates who had learned exactly why he was there.
Word spread quickly in prison.
"That's the man who tried to kill his own father."
Among thieves, fraudsters, and even murderers, there remained one crime that many considered unforgivable.
Betraying your own family.
Michael became an outcast.
No one trusted him.
No one protected him.
Across the prison complex, Elena lived a different kind of nightmare.
The woman who once obsessed over designer handbags and luxury homes now spent her days working in the prison laundry.
She often stared through the narrow window at the distant mountains.
Every time storm clouds gathered...
She remembered that cliff.
She remembered her father's final expression.
Not anger.
Not fear.
Just heartbreak.
That memory hurt more than prison ever could.
One rainy afternoon, both siblings received the same letter.
The envelope carried the logo of Viktor's charitable foundation.
Their hands trembled as they opened it.
Inside was a single page.
No accusations.
No insults.
Only a short handwritten message.
"I pray that one day you become people your younger selves would have admired."
"I have already forgiven you."
"The question is whether you can ever forgive yourselves."
— Dad
Michael read the letter three times before tears blurred the ink.
For the first time in his life...
He cried not because he had lost money...
But because he finally understood what he had thrown away.
The guards quietly watched as the two siblings, separated by different prison buildings, broke down on the very same afternoon.
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Neither of them knew...
Their father was already gravely ill once again
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