Chapter 20 - Healing Wounds In Quiet Solitude
The federal trial concluded on a rainy Friday afternoon with a unanimous guilty verdict across all seventeen felony counts.
Judge Harrison sentenced Eleanor Kincaid to twenty-five years without the possibility of parole in a maximum-security federal facility.
As the guards led her away in chains, Eleanor looked back at the empty gallery where no family members waited to wave goodbye.
She had traded her soul for wealth and control, and ended up completely alone in a world of concrete and steel.
Miles away in her quiet loft, Grace sat reading a medical journal by her bedside lamp, completely at peace with the silence.
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She didn't watch the news broadcast of the sentencing; she didn't need to see the final chapter of a book she had already closed.
Her heart was light, her spirit unbroken, and her life entirely her own once again.
