Chapter 6 - THE CLINIC CAMERA FOOTAGE GOES VIRALMy eyes darted to my mother. Eleanor lowered her head, weeping silently.
“Is... is that true?” I gasped, looking at my mother. “Mom, tell me he’s lying!”
“She can’t lie to you anymore, Madison,” Victor said, rising from his chair and walking toward us. “Your mother wasn't the victim. She was the brain behind the entire operation. Arthur was just the front man. And when Arthur found out she was funneling money to my offshore accounts, she had him killed using a slow-acting neurotoxin.”
The world felt like it was caving in on me. The man I thought was my abuser—Daniel—was actually working with my father to reclaim funds my mother had stolen from them. The mother I had spent my life protecting was the mastermind behind the entire criminal empire.
“Why did you attack me at the clinic, Daniel?” I whispered, blood trickling down my face. “Why beat me in front of everyone?!”
Daniel laughed, a dark, hysterical sound. “Because we needed a distraction! The entire scene at the clinic was staged to get you into Saint Jude Medical Center! The doctor, Emily Parker? She’s on our payroll, Madison. The flash drive she 'found' in your purse? It was planted there to lead the police away from the bank transfer happening right now!”
Suddenly, my phone—still in my tactical vest pocket—began to vibrate violently. It was notifications popping up at a rate of fifty per second.
I pulled it out with trembling hands.
The video recorded by the patients in the gynecologist’s waiting room had gone wildly viral on Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter. Over 45 million views in less than four hours.
The title trending worldwide: BILLIONAIRE HEIR BRUTALLY ATTACKS STEP-SISTER IN CLINIC—SECRET TAPE REVEALS EVIL TRUTH.
Underneath the video, thousands of comments were live-tracking Daniel’s arrest, Victor Vance’s illegal resurrection, and... the exact location of the Blackhand Gorge cabin, pinned by internet sleuths who recognized the mountain background from Daniel’s old Instagram posts.
Outside the cabin, the sound of news helicopters suddenly shattered the quiet night sky. Bright spotlight beams cut through the cabin windows, illuminating the room like a movie set.
May you like
“What is that?!” Victor shouted, dropping his glass of scotch as the floor shook from the roaring helicopter blades above.
“The internet found you,” I whispered, a cold smile spreading across my face. “You thought you played me, Daniel? You thought Dr. Parker was on your side? She wasn't playing your game. She was playing mine.”
