{"id":204,"date":"2026-07-14T21:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:50:12","slug":"part-2-at-306-a-m-victor-called-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Part 2 At 3:06 a.m., Victor called. &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Part 2 At 3:06 a.m., Victor called.<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Part 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">At 3:06 a.m., Victor called.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">I didn\u2019t answer.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">At 3:09 a.m., Olivia called.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">I smiled, poured his drugged tea down the sink, and watched the first snow of December fall gently outside our window.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">By sunrise, Victor would learn three painful truths.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The passport in his pocket wouldn\u2019t take him nearly as far as he hoped. The accounts he thought he controlled had already been frozen. And the \u201cuseless woman\u201d he mocked had spent months building a trap he would never escape.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">At 7:15 a.m., my phone rang again. This time it was my attorney, Rachel.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cIt\u2019s done,\u201d she said. \u201cAll assets frozen. Federal agents are waiting at the airport. They\u2019ve already detained him and Olivia for questioning regarding wire fraud and money laundering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">I made myself a fresh cup of coffee and sat by the window.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Victor had spent years underestimating me \u2014 treating me like a background character in his life while he planned his grand escape with my money and my former friend.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">He never realized I was the one writing the ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2 At 3:06 a.m., Victor called. Part 2 At 3:06 a.m., Victor called. I didn\u2019t answer. At 3:09 a.m.,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mealtips.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}