👉 Previous action: You started a live broadcast, exposing Julian to over 42,000 viewers as he attacked you with a crowbar.
Julian froze, the crowbar inches from the laptop screen, his face a mask of incandescent rage as the camera captured his contorted features.
“You think this changes anything?” he snarled, a low, guttural sound I’d never heard from him. “You’re a delusional teenager.”
Arthur, standing stunned in the doorway, finally seemed to snap out of his daze. “Julian, put that down!”
Maya stepped forward, directly into the camera’s view. Her hand trembled, but her eyes were firm. She held up a clear plastic bag containing a small, sealed bottle of water and a folded laboratory chemical report.
“And this,” Maya said, her voice clear and resonant for the live stream, “is the truth about his ‘delusions.'” She uncrumpled the report. “A toxicology analysis of the house well-water supply.”
She pointed to a line item, zooming in on the document for the camera. “Julian has been dosing my water pitcher with industrial thallium trace compounds. Long-term organ failure. To keep me from testifying about his estate fraud.”
Arthur stared, his face draining of color as he looked from the report to Julian, then back. His mouth hung open. Julian’s polite, charming facade didn’t just crack; it violently shattered, revealing something cold and monstrous beneath.
“You were poisoning your own sister?” Arthur whispered, his voice trembling with a horror that was finally, truly real.
Julian didn’t answer. His eyes were fixed on Maya, then on me, a venomous, calculating glint in them. The crowbar dropped with a heavy clang, bouncing off the concrete floor.
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