At My Baby Shower He Celebrated Another Woman’s Child Chapter 26
In the end, Sadie pleaded guilty to fabricating evidence and filing a false police report.
Not because she had found remorse.
But because Brooke had detailed how the footage was edited. Because Graham had admitted he’d never witnessed a threat. Because the original texts were still preserved on my phone.
She had nowhere left to run.
Brooke also pleaded guilty to her part.
Walking out of the courthouse, they crossed paths at the entrance.
Sadie sneered. “You think selling me out will make Nora forgive you?”
Brooke looked defeated.
“At least I’m not carrying this all by myself.”
“You wrote the plan!”
“You sent the text!”
Their shouting escalated until their lawyers had to physically separate them.
I walked past them both.
Without stopping.
The sentence took from them a portion of their freedom and dignity.
But what they truly lost was this: no one would ever believe their tears again.
Clara went to live with Caleb.
Marlene visited her, but never spoke ill of Sadie in front of the child.
She simply took all the love her daughter had rejected for years and offered it, gently, to her granddaughter.
The Mercer family officially revoked Clara’s heir confirmation.