Chapter 4 - The Fall of Vanessa VanceVanessa was arrested three days later.
The cameras waited outside 42 Meridian Lane.
Neighbors gathered behind police barriers.
For years, Vanessa had lived as though she were untouchable.
Then the handcuffs closed around her wrists.
Her confidence finally cracked.
“This is a mistake!”
Leo stood at the front door beside Martha.
Vanessa turned toward him.
“You love me.”
Leo’s face did not move.
“I loved who I thought you were.”
The words hit harder than any scream.
Vanessa’s expression changed.
For one brief second, there was something almost human in her eyes.
Regret.
Then it disappeared.
“If I go down,” she whispered, “I won’t go alone.”
Leo watched her being placed into the police vehicle.
He did not understand the full meaning of those words until later.
Vanessa had hidden more than cruelty.
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She had hidden an entire network of lies.
And Victor Sterling was waiting in the shadows.
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