365 My Husband Locked Me Inside a Freezer So He Could Marry a Fake Pregnant Heiress—But By Sunrise, He Was the One Trapped
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Chapter 9 / 10
Chapter 9 — The Verdict
Chapter 9 — The Verdict
The courtroom overflowed.
Families.
Employees.
Journalists.
Former business partners.
The foreperson stood.
"We find the defendant..."
"Guilty."
Attempted murder.
Conspiracy.
Fraud.
Evidence destruction.
Every count.
Nathan lowered his head.
Miriam closed her eyes.
Neither spoke.
Judge Harrison looked directly at Nathan.
"You weaponized trust."
"You treated marriage as a business transaction."
"You attempted to profit from a human life."
His sentence echoed through the courtroom.
Thirty-eight years.
Without possibility of early release under the attempted homicide statutes.
Miriam received twenty-four.
Lila accepted a plea agreement that required her testimony and years behind bars.
Justice...
May you like
Though delayed...
Had finally arrived.
