You Faked Your Deaths to Punish Me?! That’s Illegal, Family! novel Chapter 81

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Jake Miller was their only kid.

After his death, his parents went absolutely insane.

They didn’t have the time or the sanity to bother me anymore, which gave me the perfect chance to reach out to the media.

Together with Emily, we blew the lid off all the dirty secrets the Millers had been hiding for years.

Emily sat in front of the camera, calm, collected.

She didn’t flinch.

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She laid out everything Jake Miller had done to her.

“At first, I didn’t want to talk about this,” she said quietly, “but… I can’t keep running from it forever.”

“What if I was the only one left who could speak up?”

The moment that video went live, it was like a bomb going off.

The internet exploded.

Other girls who had once been my daughter’s classmates finally stood up too, adding their voices, exposing what Jake Miller had done to them as well.

Back then, they’d been terrified to speak out, against him-after all, the Millers had money, lawyers, power.

But Emily’s words broke something open inside them.

What if they were the only one left to speak up?

At the same time, news broke about the Millers’ company. Fraud. Fake books.

Millions siphoned away.

And this time, Jake Miller’s father couldn’t talk his way out of it-he was sentenced to life.

Jake Miller’s mom?

She never knew how to do anything on her own.

Once her husband was gone and her son was dead, she chose death too.

And just like that-the Miller empire crumbled.

Tree falls, monkeys scatter.

The media had a field day.

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The whole country celebrated their downfall like it was poetic justice.

Not long after, the detective who had been on my daughter’s case called me down to the station.

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I already knew what he wanted to ask.

The night Jake Miller died, I’d gone to the hospital.

And I hadn’t bothered avoiding the security cameras.

He looked at me for a long time before finally speaking.

“Does Jake Miller’s death… have anything to do with you?”

I smiled. “He brought it on himself. Didn’t he?”

Silence filled the air between us.

Then he nodded. He wasn’t going to press me further.

But then, after a pause, he pulled out an old, yellowed newspaper. Ten years old.

The headline hit me like a knife:

“Corporate Lawyer Jumps to Death Amidst Fraud Scandal at Sterling Corp.”

The detective’s voice was careful, deliberate.

“Jake Miller’s father being exposed… has something to do with you, doesn’t it?”

My smile faded.

And then, slowly, I smiled brighter than before.

Yes.

I was the anonymous whistleblower who turned Sterling Corp inside out.

Because-Jake Miller’s family didn’t just kill my daughter.

They killed my husband.

Ten years ago, my husband had been a lawyer at Sterling Corp.

When the company got caught cooking the books, the CEO didn’t want to take the fall.

So he threatened his own legal team, demanded one of them go down in his place,

That lawyer-the scapegoat-was my husband.

Back then, strange things started happening.

My car almost got rammed off the road.

Our home was broken into.

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dows mysteriously left open.

was just bad luck, rising crime in the city.

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It wasn’t.

It was Sterling Corp sending a message: If your husband doesn’t take the blame, you’re all dead.

My husband saw it.

He understood.

We already had our little girl.

He knew what he had to do to protect us.

So he jumped.

And I just happened to be nearby when it happened-called in as the medical examiner.

My very first solo autopsy was… my own husband.

I saw the cigarette burns on his skin. He didn’t smoke.

But the case was locked up in corporate lies, sealed by power, money, corruption.

As a medical examiner, I had no authority to chase the truth.

So I quit.

I had a daughter to raise, and I couldn’t risk her losing her mom too.

But then my daughter died.

Just like her father.

Right in front of me.

That was when I began my revenge.

And when I started digging, I realized why Jake Miller’s father had always seemed familiar.

He used to be a shareholder at Sterling Corp.

Pieces began to fall into place.

I opened up my husband’s old phone.

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