Chapter 11 - Vanessa Finally Explains Why She Did It
Vanessa eventually gave a recorded statement through counsel.
She admitted adding the herb to Luca’s tea.
She claimed she believed the doses would only make him tired and
nauseated.
Medical experts would determine how credible that was.
She admitted switching the dinner plates.
Her plan that night, she said, was not to kill Luca.
She wanted him ill enough to miss a crucial board meeting the next
morning.
Northstar needed the committee to act while he was unavailable.
Emma’s intervention stopped the meal.
Vanessa denied intending permanent harm.
Investigators confronted her with Luca’s prior episodes.
She admitted causing some of them.
Her explanation was painfully human and deeply selfish.
She spent years watching Luca dismiss her business ideas.
Victor dismissed them too.
She believed the Northstar merger was brilliant.
If it succeeded while Luca was incapacitated, she planned to reveal her
role afterward.
Eighteen million dollars would prove she was not decoration.
Luca later listened to the statement.
“She could have brought me the proposal.”
Dominic said nothing.
Luca had rejected her ideas before.
That did not justify secretly making him ill.
But it forced him to confront something uncomfortable.
He had loved Vanessa while rarely respecting her judgment.
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Vanessa responded by seeking control instead of leaving.
Two failures could exist without being equal.
