“What is this?” she snapped. “Do you know who I am?”
They didn’t answer.
They pulled her from her seat and escorted her off the plane in front of stunned passengers recording everything.
She was taken into a private interrogation room.
Victor was waiting.
The moment she saw him, her confidence vanished.
He placed a folder on the table—photos, bank transfers, surveillance footage.
“You abandoned two children,” he said quietly. “And ran off with the man who killed their father.”
“They were a burden!” she snapped, desperation breaking through. “I deserved that money! That life!”
Victor leaned closer.
“That man saved my life,” he said. “And you repaid him by destroying his.”
She shrank back.
“What are you going to do to me?” she whispered.
“Nothing,” Victor said calmly. “The law will handle that.”
He straightened.
“You’re facing federal charges: fraud, child abandonment, and conspiracy to commit murder. Your partner has already been picked up. He’s talking.”
Vanessa collapsed.
Victor walked out.
Behind him, the sound of handcuffs closing marked the end of her freedom.
PART 3
A DIFFERENT KIND OF POWER
Later that evening, the children’s grandmother, Evelyn Carter, arrived—flown in on Victor’s private jet.