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“I’m sorry that you’re going through this tough time,” Alexander said. “But at least now you won’t have to deal with Chloe’s craziness anymore.”

“Only on visiting days,” Olivia added, doing her best to bring humor into a serious situation.

This made a strangled laugh escape from Felix’s mouth. He thanked the two for trying to make him feel better.

Then, Olivia and Alexander walked down the sidewalk, their arms brushing every few steps. Neither of them knew that they were both doing this on purpose just to feel the warmth of the other’s skin.

*Olivia*

As Alexander and I walked toward Sarah and Adam, my stomach swooped when I saw that Sarah was crying.

Adam had his arm around his sister’s shoulders as she sobbed into her hands. “I want justice for my boy!” she yelled as her tears splashed onto the sidewalk, creating a small puddly around her feet. “Why is Chloe still in the interrogation room? Why isn’t she behind bars yet?”

“Sarah…” Adam said, his voice pained. “We are so much closer to getting justice for Russell than we were yesterday. The police are still fathering all the evidence that they need. You will get justice for your son. I promise you.” Adam looked up, and when he spotted Alexander and me, his shoulder/slumped in relief. “Look, here are the people of the hour now. Don’t you want to thank Alexander and Olivia. They are the only reason why Chloe and her mother were arrested.”

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Sarah looked up, and when she saw us, she let out a loud cry and threw arms around us. She thanked Alexander and me epeatedly and kept saying how grateful she was for us.

put his hand on his sister’s shoulder. “Come on, now. Today isn’t a day for tears. If Russell was here, he would want us to

rested her head on Alexander’s shoulder and began to cry even harder. I could barely understand her, but I thought she was saying something about

it without your valuable information.” I paused and took a breath. “Chloe and her mother will be punished for their crimes. They will no longer get away with their sins because of their family name.” Just when Alexander and I pulled away from the older woman’s

us turned to see a woman in a white sedan. Her window was rolled down, and her black designer sunglasses were lowered to the bridge of her nose. The woman’s dark hair was long, sleek, and shiny. Her light makeup was

confront the woman, wanting to know why she‘ had said something like that, but

me.

he muttered. “She’s connected to

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some way.”

my pulse. quickened. “Is this the grand defense that she’s been waiting

her,” Alexander assured me in a quiet voice.

We met Aiden, Ava, Gai, and Richard by the white van. Ava arranged for Alexander and me to

the

thumb against my cheek. For a moment, I closed my eyes and leaned into his touch, but then my eyes flew

when we got to the restaurant, I was sitting on the opposite side of the

said that she had an announcement to make. As she stood, I noticed that she seemed a little bit happier than before. “I’ve decided that I’m going to live with Kelly now that

by Chloe. I found that I was glad that Sarah and Kelly had each other and that they could help one another deal with the grief of losing

over, Kelly walked

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the hug more–she apologized to us for what she did. She said that the doctor had prescribed her medication to help, and she had a meeting set up with a therapist tomorrow. We forgave her. I was happy to see that she no longer tried to hide the scars

to New York. I chose to sit in the back of my car that Aiden was driving so that I could avoid Alexander. Gai sat in the front, and Ava sat beside me. I was exhausted and used Ava’s lap

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