Chapter 7 - My Brother’s Cowardly Final Betrayal
The heavy metal door of interview room two slammed shut with a dull thud that rattled the framed community awards on the wall.
Through the one-way glass observation panel, I watched my brother collapse into a metal chair with his head in his hands.
“Maya! Please, you can’t do this to your own brother! It was Vanessa’s idea from the very beginning!” Marcus yelled through the intercom.
I pressed the talk-back button, my voice echoing coldly through the small speaker inside the concrete interrogation box.
“You watched your wife beat an elderly man with a baseball bat, Marcus, and then helped her cover it up,” I reminded him flatly.
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“I was scared of her! She threatened to take the kids and ruin my life!” Marcus sobbed pathetically into the steel table surface.
“Then you should have married someone with a soul instead of helping her steal our father’s life savings,” I replied before cutting the audio.
