The Scorned Heiress: No More Mercy novel Chapter 955

Joseph sighs heavily, the fight draining from his posture. "What about the modified leukemia trial last month? Your calculations were completely flawed. The team stayed up for three nights straight to fix your predictive models, yet at the press conference, you told the media it was your own sudden stroke of genius. Is that what you call us holding you back?"

The room falls dead silent. Even the police officers pause, watching the heartbreaking confrontation between the two legendary scientists.

Victor looks away, a flicker of guilty exhaustion crossing his face before he hardens his expression again. "Every time I watched you stand at the podium, every time they introduced us as 'Joseph's Team,' I felt like a ghost."

"You absolute fool!" Joseph roars, his chest heaving with emotion. "We ate instant ramen in the lab and slept under our desks because we wanted to push the boundaries of science! We wanted to save lives and change the world, not count how many times our names were printed in a journal!"

Despite Joseph's desperate plea to remind him of their shared passion, Victor's expression remains stone-cold.

"Passion doesn't pay the bills," Victor sneers. "I wanted real power. Real money. With the empire I built, I didn't have to wait months for some bureaucratic board to approve a pathetic little research grant. I could do whatever I wanted."

He refuses to show an ounce of remorse, convinced that Joseph is just preaching from a useless moral high ground.

"You are completely out of your mind," Joseph says, his voice breaking. He stares at the man he thought he knew, dreading the answer to his next question. "Tell me the truth. Did you intentionally murder Arthur and Garrett?"

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