He knew better.
Only ruin.
And truth, finally exposed.
“I told myself,” he whispered, struggling to breathe, “that I was protecting the family. Then I kept protecting myself. That’s how evil works. It asks for one lie first.”
Rachel knelt beside him, tears falling silently.
He looked at her longest.
“I’m sorry.”
She closed her eyes.
“You should be.”
When the police arrived, we told them everything.
The tapes.
