Fiancée Blames Stress for a Billionaire’s Hearing Loss Until a Deaf Child Signs That She Has Been Drugging His Dinner
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Chapter 24 - Vanessa’s breakdown
Before sentencing, Vanessa wrote me a letter.
I did not answer.
She said:
I never thought of it as poisoning.
That sentence bothered me.
Then:
I thought you needed to slow down. I thought if you stepped away for a month, the deal would close, you would recover, and eventually you would understand why it had been necessary.
That was worse.
Not because it was more evil.
Because it was ordinary rationalization.
She had converted:
Control
into
Care.
Manipulation
into
Protection.
Financial self-interest
into
May you like
What’s best for everyone.
People can do terrible things while insisting their vocabulary makes them kind.
