Chapter 24 - Grant's Desperate Plea
Two days before being transferred to a maximum-security federal penitentiary in West Texas, Grant requested a final prison visitation session with Mara.
Mara agreed to go, sitting across the steel mesh screen in the bleak visitation room.
"Mara..." Grant rasped, his voice broken and hollow. "Tell June... tell my niece that I'm sorry."
Mara looked at him with calm, unyielding forgiveness, knowing that holding onto bitterness would only poison her own soul.
"Grant, you spent your whole life destroying people for money," Mara said quietly.
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"My daughter and I are going to spend the rest of ours healing them."
She stood up, walked out of the prison doors into the warm Texas sunlight, and never looked back.
