“Then you knew that your company almost killed my brother and still made me pay you with my dignity.
The phrase hit him harder than any slap. Victor closed his eyes, but did not try to defend himself.
I didn’t know that night. That doesn’t acquit me. Just change the kind of monster I was.
Maya looked at him with a dangerous calm. “Don’t use fancy words to dirty less than you did.
Victor nodded slowly, as if every word of her was a deserved sentence.
“He’s right. I saw a desperate young woman and I had enough power to help her without humiliating her. I chose to humiliate her.
The silence was heavy, full of everything that money usually buys so that no one names it.
“Why did he really call me?” Maya asked. Because men like you don’t confess by remorse. They confess when they fear losing something.
Victor took a sealed folder from the drawer and pushed it on the table.
My chief financial officer wants to blame you for extortion. He says he seduced the CEO to pay a bill.
Maya felt nauseous. The office air smelled of expensive leather, dark coffee and a carefully scented threat.
“And what do you want?” Sign another lie to save your reputation?
I want you to have the test before they destroy it,” Victor said. And I want to testify against my own meeting.
Maya released a short, bitter laugh, too young to sound so tired.
“How convenient. Now the villain wants to become a witness when the victim was already sacrificed.
Victor did not immediately respond. He walked to the window, but this time he didn’t look like the city’s owner.
“I will not apologize to you expecting to receive it,” he said. I’m giving him a way to destroy myself, too.
Maya opened the folder with trembling fingers. Inside were mails, truck routes, altered policies and overly important signatures.
