A Wealthy Heir Beat My Eight-Year-Old Daughter and Smashed Her Phone—Then She Whispered, “Daddy, It Recorded Everything”
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Chapter 12 - Graham Cross comes to the hospital
Ethan’s father arrived the next morning.
Alone.
No lawyer at first.
He looked destroyed.
“Dominic.”
I stood.
“Not here.”
“I need to tell Lily—”
“No.”
He stopped.
Correctly.
“She doesn’t need your apology right now.”
He nodded.
Then:
“Did Ethan do what the police are saying?”
“I don’t know everything yet.”
“If he did—”
I cut him off.
“Do not finish that sentence with ‘he’ll answer to me.’”
Graham looked surprised.
“Why?”
“Because he answers to the law first.”
He sat down.
Then quietly:
“Cross Meridian knew nothing about sabotaging Vale.”
“I hope that’s true.”
“So do I.”
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That was the first time I understood he was frightened not only for his son.
For every employee and investor Ethan might have dragged into suspicion.
