Chapter 7 - Posting Bail At The County Holding Facility
I spent the next six hours at the county clerk's office, working alongside a local criminal defense attorney to secure my father's immediate release on bail. By midnight, my father stepped out through the heavy steel doors of the station, looking aged, exhausted, and completely broken inside.
"I lost everything today, Maya," he said quietly as we walked through the parking lot toward my sedan under the dim yellow streetlights. "My marriage of twenty-two years was a lie, my business partner is a criminal extortionist, and now I have an arrest record."
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"You haven't lost me, Dad," I replied firmly, placing a reassuring hand on his shoulder as I opened the car door for him. "We are going to fight this, expose Mom and Gregory in court, and take back every single thing they stole from you."
He looked at me with tears brimming in his eyes, realizing for the first time how deeply he had misjudged my intentions over the past year.
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