Chapter 14 - The Hospital BribeThe doctor's voice trembled.
"If Mr. Astor discovers this—"
"He won't," Victoria replied.
"You'll tell him the boy died."
A pause.
Then Victoria spoke again.
"People believe what they're told when they're grieving."
Richard looked as though someone had struck him.
For years, he had mourned his son.
He had blamed himself.
He had believed fate had taken Leo.
But fate hadn't done it.
Someone had stolen his son from him.
The recording ended.
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Silence filled the mansion.
Victoria's carefully constructed life had just been destroyed by her own voice.
