The days after my mother's funeral were the darkest of my life, darker than the divorce, darker than my brother's death, darker than any moment I had survived. I spent most of them in the safe house with Merald beside me and the evidence spread across the table, planning the final confrontation with David. The grief was a weight on my chest, pressing down on me, making it hard to breathe, but I couldn't let it stop me, couldn't let it slow me down, because David was still out there.Mercer was still out there, and they needed to pay for what they had done to my family, to my brother, to my mother."We have everything we need," James said, pointing to the documents spread across the table, his voice steady but his eyes tired. "Witness statements, financial records, bank transfers, even a recording of David giving the order to kill your brother. It's all here.""Then why haven't we gone to the police? Why haven't we done something sooner?""Because the police are in his pocket. Hal
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