Chapter 28: Without Bail
Word reached them later that morning. A nurse brought in a tablet, her face sympathetic as she showed Julian the breaking news alerts. Julian read the screen, a slow, grim smile spreading across his exhausted features. He turned the screen toward Elara.
The district attorney, armed with Julian's testimony and security footage seized from the estate, had officially filed charges against Victoria and her accomplices. It was attempted murder in the first degree. And due to the flight risk and the severity of the crime, the judge had remanded them to custody.
There would be no bail. There would be no retreating to a summer home to wait out the scandal. The aggressors were sitting in cold concrete cells, ensuring they would face a reckoning in a court of law. Justice, though brutally delayed and earned through immense pain, was finally taking its course.
