Chapter 26: Evidence Dump
They should have left for Montana immediately. Should have gotten in the car the day after sentencing and driven until […]
They should have left for Montana immediately. Should have gotten in the car the day after sentencing and driven until […]
The attack came five days before sentencing. Paige was in the safe house with Vincent, surrounded by police protection, when
The guilty verdict should have meant safety. It should have meant Marcus was locked away, powerless, no longer a threat.
The Nevada compound became a crime scene. Police swarmed the property, documenting everything. FBI agents arrived—kidnapping across state lines made
The drive to Nevada took four hours. Four hours of Paige second-guessing herself, checking her phone obsessively, wondering if she
Paige couldn’t go back to court the next day. “I can’t watch him lie,” she told Vincent over breakfast. “I
Paige didn’t sleep at all the night before her testimony. She watched the clock tick from midnight to one to
The morning of the trial started quietly. Paige dressed in the outfit Grace had helped her choose—a navy suit, professional
Three days before trial, Paige stopped sleeping entirely. Not insomnia—she’d dealt with that for months. This was different. This was
The interview changed everything. Not overnight. Not dramatically. But slowly, like water wearing down stone, public opinion began to shift.