But the people behind Hannah still hadn’t been fully exposed.
So much time had passed, and there were no clear leads—only Hannah herself remained as the thread to pull.
Now that she was emotionally shattered, it was the perfect opportunity.
Selina leaned forward slightly, her tone soft but deliberate.
"Mrs. Hill, none of this is your fault. It’s their fault. They manipulated you, forced you to do things you didn’t want to do. I know you have a kind heart—you would never willingly betray your country, or turn against the Hill and Brooks families."
She continued, almost gently: "My father left a letter behind for you. In it, he pleaded for leniency. As long as you tell us everything you know, the authorities have agreed to honor my father’s final wish. They won’t hold you responsible for all of the charges."
Hannah’s eyes widened—like a drowning woman grasping at a floating branch.
"Y-Yes! I didn’t... it wasn’t me! I didn’t do it willingly!" she cried, desperate and trembling.
Selina nodded slowly. "If my father were still alive, I think he’d want you to live well too. Such a pity..."
Hannah’s eyes went glassy, her mind unraveling.
Yes, it wasn’t her fault. It was their fault.
She was innocent, pure, kind—it was others who made her this way.
Curtis had loved her. He’d promised to protect her forever...
Selina glanced at the agents nearby and gave a subtle signal. They stepped forward to escort Hannah out.
Before she was taken away, Selina handed them a sealed envelope.
"This," she said meaningfully, "is the letter my father left. Mrs. Hill, you can read it when you have time."
Hannah was led away in hysterics, half-collapsed from mental exhaustion.
Selina hadn’t expected things to go so smoothly, but Hannah’s mind was fragile—obsessive to the point of sickness.
With solid evidence in hand, the interrogation was easy.
Under psychological and emotional collapse—and after seeing the forged letter—Hannah quickly broke. Within hours, the interrogation experts had several names from her lips.
It all came pouring out.
Foreign forces had interfered for the sake of Brooks Family’s research results.
Some betrayed their country for wealth and power.
Some sold out friends for a sliver of profit.
One by one, every secret was laid bare.
...
Three months later, Hannah had confessed everything.
Logan took back the forged letter.
"Tell her when the time comes," he said coldly, "that the letter was fake. Curtis never cared for her—not even once in his life."
After everything—murder, treason, the destruction of the Hill family, the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks, of Victoria, and indirectly of her own mother, Anna—Hannah didn’t deserve a peaceful death.
Logan was not a man who forgave easily.
When it was all over, many were sent to prison.
Matt and Philip never imagined that not only would they end up behind bars, but they’d also be charged with treason.
Despair consumed them—too late for regret.
Matt had known Hannah poisoned the Hill patriarch.
Blinded by greed, he hadn’t stopped her.
He’d even conspired in Charles’s death.
Decades later, only now did regret strike him.
If not for his adoptive grandfather, he’d have starved long ago.
Charles had been a good brother—protective, tolerant. Even as an adopted child, Matt had been treated as blood.
So why had he destroyed the very family that raised him—only to destroy himself too?
As for the Perry family—
When Grandpa Perry learned he had been drugged by Amelia all along, his fury was explosive. He immediately ordered her cast out.
Without the Perrys’ protection, Amelia fared no better with the Reids.
She was, after all, the fake heiress and homewrecker who’d replaced Anna—and with her lies exposed, she was soon thrown out of the Reid family as well.
Chairman Reid’s love? It evaporated the moment profit disappeared.
He had let Amelia drive Anna to her death for the sake of alliance with the Perrys—he should have known this day would come.
And in the end, his own downfall followed swiftly.
Without Logan, what was the Reid family worth?
With Grandma Perry determined to avenge her daughter, both the Perry and Reid families collapsed completely.
The drug’s ability to control minds—yes, it was real.
But Selina’s words to Hannah had been a lie.
Curtis was a member of the Brooks family, but he wasn’t immune to the drug.
He simply hadn’t fallen under its control because—the human heart can resist it.
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