Xavier sighed and looked down for a second before answering. "Victoria had a best friend—a girl around her age. She used to visit their house a lot. Ethan… raped her. Recorded it. Then used it to blackmail her, forced her into it again and again until she couldn't take it anymore. She ended her own life."
The silence that followed was heavy enough to choke on.
"And that wasn't all," Xavier continued, voice cold and detached now. "She had a close friend—a guy who always looked out for her. Ethan killed him in a fit of jealousy because he thought the guy was her boyfriend. Staged it as a car crash."
Viola's expression hardened, her usual smugness gone. "...That's sick."
Xavier nodded. "He's done worse. Bribed judges to silence assault cases, trafficked people through his company's research branches, experimented on orphans to test the serum formula. Even ordered the hit that wiped out a whole rebel group that tried to expose him."
