Chapter 4: A Witness Named Lily
Chapter 4: A Witness Named Lily
Police detectives arrived just after midnight.
Elias expected the usual routine.
Statements.
Lawyers.
Delays.
Instead, Detective Marcus Hale walked directly to Lily.
He knelt until they were eye level.
"Can you tell me what happened?"
Lily clutched the stuffed rabbit she had dropped earlier.
Her tiny voice shook.
"Grandpa hit Mommy."
The room became perfectly still.
No lawyer interrupted.
No executive objected.
Children didn't calculate stock prices.
They didn't protect billion-dollar reputations.
They simply told the truth.
One officer quietly collected the bloodstained cane.
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Another photographed the shattered glass.
The empire that had manipulated governments for decades could not manipulate a frightened eight-year-old girl.
