Chapter 16 - Marcus Reveals Why Maya Mother Was Erased Completely
Marcus lowered himself slowly into his wingback chair, resting his trembling hands on his cane handle. The grandfather looked smaller, frailer, and utterly defeated by the ghosts of his family's past mistakes.
"Eleanor wasn't sick, Alexander," Marcus began, his voice barely above a whisper in the silent library. "She discovered that Evelyn and Julian were laundering cartel money through the shipping lines."
Alexander gripped the edge of the desk, listening in stunned silence as the terrible truth spilled out. "When your mother tried to transfer control of the trust to Maya, they poisoned her slowly," Marcus continued.
"They made it look like a heart attack, and they threatened to do the same to Maya if I spoke out." Alexander felt the room spinning around him, the sheer scale of his family's evil taking his breath away.
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"That's why Evelyn wanted Maya humiliated at the gala tonight," Alexander realized aloud. "She wanted to break her spirit so she would never claim her inheritance." Marcus nodded slowly, a single tear rolling down his weathered cheek.
"And now they're coming here to finish what they started," Marcus warned, looking toward the dark windows. Suddenly, the estate's exterior security floodlights flickered and died, plunging the grounds into absolute darkness.
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