Chapter 18 - The Final Accounting of the Estate
The federal trial concluded on a rainy Friday afternoon with a unanimous guilty verdict across all twenty-four felony counts.
Judge Harrison sentenced Victoria Kincaid to twenty-five years without the possibility of parole in a maximum-security federal penitentiary.
As the bailiffs led her away in chains, Victoria looked back at the empty gallery where no family members waited to wave goodbye.
She had traded her soul, her family, and her humanity for wealth and control, ending up completely alone in concrete and steel.
Miles away in his peaceful home, Ethan sat reading a storybook by the fireplace, completely at peace with the quiet evening.
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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.
