Chapter 8 - THE LAST WITNESSThe trial began six months later.
David testified.
So did Alessandro.
I sat beside Logan.
Nathaniel finally appeared in court.
He looked calm.
Too calm.
Then the prosecution introduced a final witness.
My supervisor.
She admitted everything.
The fake death.
The hospital records.
The threats.
The payments.
But she revealed something nobody expected.
Nathaniel wasn't the mastermind.
Someone else had ordered David's disappearance.
Someone who had been dead for years.
My father-in-law.
David's own father.
He had built the network before his death.
Nathaniel had inherited it.
And the person currently running it was—
Alessandro's former partner.
The man who had shot him.
The trial suddenly became bigger than our family.
It became a federal case.
And Alessandro realized he had been betrayed by the person he trusted most.
The final arrest happened at the Baltimore docks.
A violent confrontation.
A chase through shipping containers.
David found Nathaniel.
For a moment, the brothers stared at each other.
Nathaniel lowered his weapon.
“I never wanted to hurt you.”
David answered:
“But you did.”
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Nathaniel surrendered.
The network collapsed.
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