Adrian moved so quickly that the security officers barely stopped him.
His hands reached for her throat.
I caught his sleeve.
“Don’t.”
He turned toward me, eyes burning.
“She murdered my brother.”
“And she will live long enough to be convicted for it.”
For several seconds, I felt the violence shaking through him.
Then he stepped back.
Above us, police flooded the house.
Julian did not escape. Officers found him in the garage attempting to open the gate with a key fob that had already been deactivated.
Harold confessed before noon.
Once he began, he could not stop.
He told investigators everything.
Beatrice had discovered that Daniel possessed copies of the original flight-test records proving the navigation system had not caused the crash. She lured him to the house, shot him, and forced Harold to hide the body behind the vault wall.
