The Heiress Returns: Reclaiming My Legacy
They never understood that everything I did — every plan, every risk, every lie — was to take back what was supposed to be mine.
Lucas. The family’s pride. The life I was denied.
When the judge read the sentence — life imprisonment without parole — a strange calm settled over me. There were gasps, a few murmurs, maybe even a sigh of relief from her side of the courtroom.
I didn’t flinch. I didn’t cry. I didn’t even blink.
They led me away in chains, my footsteps echoing down the empty corridor like a metronome counting down the rest of my life. The cell was small — metal bed, gray walls, the faint smell of disinfectant and despair.