I removed my gloves and dropped them aside.

“No,” I said calmly. “I’m done being deceived.”

Marcus woke later to find handcuffs loosely secured to his hospital bed—not tight, not cruel, but impossible to ignore.

Vanessa was in the hallway, shouting into her phone until the detective confiscated it as evidence.

“You can’t do this!” she yelled at me. “You’re nobody!”

My lawyer opened the file.

“Elena is the trustee of the Larkwell family medical trust,” she stated. “She is also the majority owner of the property Marcus attempted to leverage using forged authorization.”

Marcus looked at me, his voice trembling. “Elena… I was desperate.”

“For her?” I asked.

Vanessa immediately pointed at him. “Don’t blame me! He said the money was his!”

I almost laughed.

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