Chapter 4: The Witness Nobody Expected
The video played.
A young man appeared on the screen.
Victoria stepped backward.
“No…”
Her voice cracked.
Everyone looked at her.
Detective Collins spoke calmly.
“His name is Daniel Cross.”
Elena stared at the screen.
Daniel was the man who helped her expose the Harrington family years ago.
The man who disappeared.
The man Victoria claimed had betrayed them.
But the recording revealed something else.
Victoria had arranged his disappearance.
She had paid someone to destroy evidence.
She had threatened witnesses.
And Daniel had secretly recorded everything.
Victoria’s perfect image collapsed.
“No one will believe this,” she whispered.
Then the mansion doors opened.
Everyone turned.
A man walked inside.
Older.
Scarred.
But alive.
Daniel Cross.
The room erupted.
Elena covered her mouth.
Tears filled her eyes.
“You’re alive…”
Daniel nodded.
“I promised I would come back when I could protect you.”
Victoria stared in horror.
May you like
Because the one person who could destroy her…
Had returned.
