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Chapter 8

They found him three days later.

In a hotel room near the airport.

With a packed suitcase. And a one-way ticket to Mexico.

He was planning to run.

But he'd waited too long.

He was arrested and charged with assault, theft, attempted fraud, and stalking.

And because of the other victims my lawyer had found—women who were now willing to come forward, now that someone was finally listening—the charges piled higher.

Identity theft. Financial exploitation. Pattern of domestic abuse.

The evidence was overwhelming.

Ethan tried to fight it.

He claimed I'd attacked him. That I'd set him up. That I was a grieving widow who'd lost her mind.

But the cameras didn't lie.

The insurance company records didn't lie.

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The other women didn't lie.

And Lily—who had told a child psychologist exactly what she'd seen—didn't lie.

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