Chapter 18 - Maximum Security Prison Sentence
The trial moved with lightning speed, concluding three weeks later with a unanimous guilty verdict on all twenty-four felony counts.
Judge Harrison sentenced Elena Vance to thirty-five years without parole in a maximum-security federal penitentiary upstate.
As the bailiffs led her away in heavy chains, Elena looked back at the empty gallery where no one waited to wave goodbye.
She had traded her humanity for greed and control, ending up completely alone in a world of concrete and steel.
Miles away, Reynolds sat reading a storybook by the fireplace in his mansion, completely at peace with the quiet evening.
May you like
He didn't watch the news broadcast of the sentencing; he didn't need to see the final chapter of a book he had already closed.
His heart was light, his children were smiling, and his future was entirely his own once again.
