The trial was swift. With videos, financial records, and witness testimony, the jury found them guilty on all counts.
Brianna received twelve years. Daniel received eight.
A year and a half later, my life is finally mine again.
I walk, I work, I travel. Their old room is now my office. Daniel writes letters from prison—I don’t answer.
Sometimes I dream of falling, but I wake in my safe, quiet home and remind myself: it’s over.
I survived.
They thought a sixty-eight-year-old woman would be easy to break.
They were wrong.
