Chapter 10 - Tabloids Explode Across America
By sunrise, major news networks and online gossip tabloids broke the sensational story across every screen in America.
High-Society Horror: Billionaire Stepmother Arrested After Attempting to Drop Infant Off Mansion Balcony in Chilling Security Video.
Footage of Elena being hauled out in handcuffs while wearing her ruined copper-brown silk dress played on endless loops.
Socialites who had fawned over her at charity galas now rushed to delete every photo and association from their social media.
Commentators debated the shocking depravity of elite family crimes, analyzing the unedited security footage frame by frame.
Inside her holding cell at the county precinct, Elena woke up to the sound of reporters shouting her name outside the barred window.
She pulled her prison-issue jumpsuit tightly around herself, realizing her face was plastered across every television in the nation.
Her father, the federal judge, had officially recused himself and publicly disowned her within an hour of the broadcast.
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The illusion of untouchable high-society perfection had shattered into a million sharp, unforgiving pieces.
She was completely alone in the dark, facing a lifetime of public humiliation and maximum-security prison walls.
