Chapter 2 - JULIAN HAD NOT LIVED INSIDE THE WALL FOR THREE YEARSThe first thing Arthur learned was that Julian had not spent three continuous years behind one wall.
The truth was more calculated.
After the staged accident, he had been taken to a private property owned through one of Charles’s shell companies.
A former rehabilitation estate in upstate New York.
He was kept there under supervision.
Sedated at first.
Then threatened.
Eventually, after Julian escaped once and reached a highway, Victoria convinced him Arthur had signed legal papers declaring him unstable and dangerous.
She showed him forged documents.
A psychiatric commitment order.
A letter supposedly from Arthur.
Until you stop trying to destroy this family, you cannot come home.
Julian believed enough of it to hesitate.
Then they moved him.
Again.
And again.
The hidden Blackwood chamber was only the most recent location.
They brought him back to the mansion six weeks earlier because Victoria believed the family trust vote was finally near completion.
No one would search the house.
Why would they?
Arthur lived there.
That arrogance nearly worked.
The chamber itself had once been part of the mansion’s wartime shelter system.
Ventilation.
Service access.
A narrow concealed route to the old laundry wing.
Victoria and Charles had converted it into temporary confinement.
Food was delivered through the service passage.
Julian had no direct exit.
But he had learned the rhythms.
The guards.
The footsteps.
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And after one careless worker dropped a small recorder while making repairs, Julian stole it.
That recorder became his insurance.
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