Chapter 14 - VICTORIA TRIED TO CALL IT PROTECTIONVictoria’s attorney advised silence.
Victoria ignored him.
During one controlled family meeting, she told Julian:
“I was trying to protect you.”
He laughed.
“From what?”
“The board.”
“By chaining me?”
“I didn’t want Charles to hurt you.”
“You helped him.”
She started crying.
“I kept you alive.”
Julian’s face became very still.
“No.”
He said.
“You helped create the danger and then gave yourself credit for limiting it.”
Nobody spoke.
It was the clearest sentence in the room.
Victoria had sometimes argued against harsher confinement.
She stopped Charles from moving Julian to an overseas facility once.
That did not make her rescuer.
A person cannot participate in imprisonment and then claim moral ownership because they occasionally reduced its severity.
Julian understood that.
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Eventually, Victoria did too.
Much later.
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