Noel stood in silence, his emotions a fortress that none could breach. It wasn't until his uncle, Graham Tanner, hustled through the door that the walls came crashing down.

Seeing Noel's tear-streaked face, Graham rushed to embrace his nephew.

Choking back sobs, Noel clung to him. "Uncle, my brother's gone. I don't have a brother anymore...'

The assistant's eyes welled up with tears at the sight. She had worked with Noel for years, yet this was the first time she witnessed his unguarded anguish, his face awash with grief like a dam burst open, the pain palpable and piercing.

She discreetly slipped out of the room to spare him any further embarrassment.

They spent the entire night together, ensconced in the solemnity of their shared sorrow.

As dawn broke, Graham emerged.

The assistant approached immediately. "Mr. Tanner, how's Noel?"

"Asleep," came the gravelly reply.

was determined to unearth every

"Right away."

over after their venerable old man was hospitalized from the shock of Isaac's demise. It

of her interrogation. She was confessing to everything- the abduction of Brittany, the sabotage of the car brakes. She knew the kidnappers had to be

each word, each admission. The pain was

behind two boys who had just begun to find their footing in the world, only for one to be cruelly

driver's seat in a desperate attempt to save Brittany, resulting in the car tumbling down the hill, swallowed by

on the evidence, Leila will be

"Good."

stance crystal clear. "Even though the Tanner family isn't from Craneville, should you fail to provide satisfactory justice, we will not hesitate to escalate matters." The officer

Tanner family and the pressure from the Lynette family,

finally turned to the niece-in-law he had

her condition isn't promising. Are

for her. How could I not see

and the assistant, unable to withstand

at the hospital where

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