The chapel had gone still in the way silence only happens when everyone is afraid to move wrong.
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Chapter 3 / 4
Chapter 3: The Collapse of Control
Chapter 3: The Collapse of Control
David finally turned on Jessica.
Slowly.
Like a man realizing the floor beneath him was no longer solid.
“What did you do?” he whispered.
Jessica grabbed his sleeve. “That’s fake. She’s doing this to destroy us—”
But her voice cracked on the last word.
The speakers continued anyway.
More audio.
More truth.
Her laughter from the funeral entrance.
Her words about the estate.
Her certainty.
Her cruelty.
Each sentence dismantled something in the room that could never be rebuilt.
Mourners began to move—some backward, some toward the exits, all of them unable to remain still inside a space that had just turned into evidence.
David stepped away from her.
May you like
Just one step.
But it was enough.
