Chapter 12 - Samantha Confronts Her Father Over The Hidden Blood Money
Before Arthur was transported to the federal detention facility, Samantha requested five private minutes alone with him in the room.
The heavy steel door clicked shut, leaving father and daughter facing each other across the cold metallic table under bright fluorescent light.
Arthur looked up, his face hollow, his eyes pleading for a warmth that Samantha could no longer find inside her heart.
“Samantha... please, you have to believe me,” Arthur whispered, reaching out his trembling, handcuffed hands across the table toward her.
“Everything I did... every dollar I accumulated... was to ensure you would never want for anything in this cruel world.”
Samantha looked down at his hands, then up into the eyes of the man who had lied to her for every second of her life.
“You didn't do it for me, Dad,” Samantha said softly, her voice filled with a profound, quiet sadness that cut deeper than any blade.
“You did it because you loved power more than you loved my mother... and more than you ever loved truth or honor.”
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“You stole twenty years of my life with my mother, and you used her name to fund a criminal enterprise.”
She stood up, turning her back on him as Arthur began to weep openly, begging her for forgiveness that would never come.
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