Chapter 13 - Emily Shares The Terrifying Truth Of That Night

Emily stepped closer to the terrace, her voice steady as she recounted the harrowing details of the night she was left for dead.
“She hit me with the heavy brass candlestick in the cliff house library after I discovered she was embezzling from our scholarship fund,” Emily testified.
“Then she dragged my unconscious body down to the rocky cove, leaving me to the mercy of the rising midnight tide,” she continued quietly.
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Ethan listened in stunned silence, finally understanding the profound trauma his mother had carried in exile for two decades.
Officer Davis pulled a pair of heavy steel handcuffs from his tactical belt, stepping past Arthur toward the trembling socialite.
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