Chapter 15 – "The Final Warning: My Dad's Eyes in Court Said 'This Isn't Over'"
One year later, Evie walked into the courtroom for the first day of her father's trial.
He sat at the defendant's table, his face composed, his suit immaculate. He looked like a man who had everything under control.
But Evie knew better.
She'd spent a year thinking about everything that had happened. She'd pieced together the pattern of Vance family crimes. She'd read every file Thorne had given her. She'd talked to victims' families, people who had lost everything to her family's fires.
And she'd come to a terrible conclusion.
The fires had started long before her grandparents. They were a family tradition, a legacy of violence and greed that had been passed down from generation to generation.
But someone had to stop it.
Someone had to break the cycle.
Evie watched her father across the courtroom, his eyes meeting hers for just a moment.
There was something in his gaze. Not remorse. Not anger. Something colder. Something that said, this isn't over.
And Evie knew she had to be ready.
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The trial was just the beginning.
THE END?
