Chapter 7
Claire thrashed violently against the deputy, kicking her high-heeled shoes across the polished marble floor.
"Daniel, do something! Don't just stand there like an idiot while they put me in cuffs!" Claire shrieked.
Daniel stood paralyzed, staring at his falling world with a blank, shell-shocked expression on his face.
He looked at his father, then at the glittering US flag hanging proudly on the wall behind the staircase.
"Dad... please, let's settle this like family inside," Daniel begged, his voice trembling pathetically.
"We are done being family, Daniel," Arthur answered, his voice devoid of any warmth or pity.
"You chose your bed; now you get to spend the rest of your life freezing in it."
Deputy Miller snapped the steel handcuffs tightly around Claire's slender wrists, cutting off her hysterical protests.
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As the deputies dragged Claire toward the open front doors, she glared at Arthur with pure, unadulterated venom.
"You haven't won, Arthur! I will destroy every single thing you love!" she screamed into the winter night air.
