“You’ll ruin everything,” Elena whispered, tears flashing.
Jason’s laugh echoed louder. “Choose, Caleb. Pay the debt, lose Lucy, or let the truth burn them all.”
Section 5 – The Confrontation
“Jason, you’ve got one minute,” I whispered, holding the phone so his voice sounded like a hiss.
He laughed, a thin sound that bounced off the hallway tiles. “Caleb, you’re still playing hero? I’m just trying to keep the charity afloat.”
My grip tightened. “You’re siphoning from the fund we built for kids like Lucy. And now you want to sell her story to a tabloid?”
“They’ll pay a fortune for a little girl with a birthmark,” he replied, his tone casual as if we were bargaining over a used car.
I felt the weight of the file in my pocket—Lucy’s chart, the trust papers, the video cassette note. “You have that video, don’t you?”
