Chapter 6 - Adrian Questions His Old Revenge
Adrian finally told me what happened after James died.
He had not ordered three men killed.
But he had ordered them abducted and interrogated.
Violently.
Two were released.
One disappeared later.
Adrian claimed he did not know by whose hand.
I believed one thing immediately.
He was not proud.
“I thought the Morettis killed James.”
“Why?”
“Victor gave me evidence.”
There it was.
Victor.
Phone records.
A witness.
A payment trail.
All routed through information Victor controlled.
Adrian had acted on it.
James’s files suggested those same rival contacts may have been framed
to divert attention from internal theft.
Adrian sat in silence.
For years, people feared him because he never second-guessed decisions.
Now the most important decision of his life had become uncertain.
“What if I punished innocent men?” he asked.
I did not comfort him.
“You find out.”
He looked at me.
May you like
I continued.
“And if you did, you live with the answer.”
