Chapter 9 - THE WOMAN IN RED Victoria pleaded guilty to multiple offenses.
Her cooperation helped convict Nathan and several Bennett Aerospace executives.
It reduced her sentence.
It did not erase it.
Before sentencing, Victoria requested permission to address Daniel.
“I’m sorry.”
Daniel listened.
“I know that means nothing.”
“It means something.”
She looked surprised.
Daniel continued.
“But it doesn’t change what happened.”
Victoria nodded.
“I know.”
She cried when she spoke about Lily.
“I became exactly the kind of person I thought I was pretending to be.”
Daniel understood the sentence.
Sometimes people told themselves they were only playing a role.
Then one day the role became their character.
Victoria went to prison.
Daniel never visited.
But years later, when he received a letter describing her work helping investigators identify financial coercion schemes, he did not throw it away.
He placed it in a drawer.
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Accountability and change could exist together.
Forgiveness did not require forgetting.
