Chapter 17 - A Visitor At Florence Prison
Two weeks later, Nora returned to Florence, Arizona, to visit Edgar in the county jail where he was awaiting final sentencing.
She sat behind a thick partition of bulletproof glass, holding a telephone receiver to her ear as Edgar was led inside in chains.
He looked thin, hollow, and completely broken, his hands shaking as he picked up his receiver across the glass.
“Nora…” Edgar whispered, his eyes filled with pathetic, desperate tears. “Thank you for coming…”
Nora looked at him without anger, without hatred, seeing only a weak, foolish man who had traded his soul for nothing.
“I didn’t come to forgive you, Edgar,” Nora said calmly over the phone line.
“I came to tell you that the trust fund for your son Leo has been fully secured.”
Edgar blinked, fresh tears spilling over his cheeks as he stared at her in disbelief.
“You… you saved my son?” Edgar sobbed out, pressing his forehead against the cold glass.
“Leo is an innocent child,” Nora replied smoothly. “He deserves a chance at a real life, far away from your family’s poison.”
“He will go to college, he will have a home, and he will never have to know the monsters who raised his father.”
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Edgar wept silently, nodding his head against the glass as he swallowed his shame.
“Goodbye, Edgar,” Nora said softly, hanging up the phone and walking away without looking back once.
