Her voice was calm.
“You meant every choice you made.”
Ryan’s shoulders slumped.
“I loved you.”
Isabella shook her head.
“No.”
A long pause.
“You loved what my silence allowed you to do.”
Ryan said nothing.
Court resumed.
Two months later, the verdict arrived.
Arthur Castellano received seven years in federal prison.
Ryan received three years for fraud and witness intimidation.
When the judge read the sentence, Ryan looked back toward the gallery.
But Isabella wasn’t there.
She had already moved on.
The Mansion Without Owners
The Castellano estate was sold six months later.
The auction was quiet.
The once-famous mansion—where Isabella had been humiliated—was purchased by a development company.
They planned to demolish it.
A reporter asked Edward Reyes if he felt satisfaction watching the house fall.
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