Chapter 6 - Interrogating Victoria At The Federal Detention Center
By three in the morning, Victoria sat in a stark concrete interrogation room inside the FBI Field Office on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Her hands were cuffed to the steel table, her expensive makeup ruined by tears and mud from her arrest along the river.
Julian sat across from her, laying out the confiscated leather briefcase alongside the glass chemical vial recovered from Lily’s apron.
"This is Compound TX-9, a restricted neurotoxin developed under a classified Defense Department contract five years ago," Julian stated calmly.
"I was framed, Julian! I was instructed to plant that vial on Lily so federal inspectors would shut down your father's foundation!" Victoria claimed.
"Who instructed you, Victoria? Give me a name, or you will spend the rest of your life in a supermax facility in Colorado," Julian warned.
Victoria swallowed hard, her eyes darting toward the two-way mirror on the wall before leaning across the cold steel table.
"Senator Marcus Vance," she whispered, her voice barely audible over the hum of the air conditioning unit above.
Julian’s jaw tightened as the name of his own uncle, a powerful member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, echoed through the room.
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"Marcus has been funding the illegal research using the family's charitable trusts as a financial front for years," Victoria revealed.
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