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Brendan set his jaw, forcing himself to be firm. "That''s enough. You don''t get to cry. You lost that right. Get up. We''re going home."
He yanked Keh to his feet, ignoring the tears still pouring down his son''s face, and dragged him toward
the exit.
Brielle followed, quietly pushing ine''s wheelchair.
ine turned her head and looked up at the second floor, eyes shining with regret.
Lauren, I hope you find happiness. I really do.
As they stepped outside, Keh suddenly dug in his heels. He refused to leave.
"I''m not going! I have to stay-I have to apologize to her!" he cried.
Brendan had enough. His fury boiled over.
He pped Keh across the face-once, then again-hard.
Only then did he finally get Keh into the car and take him away.
When they got back to the Gray Mansion, Brendan was finally hit with the full reality-Gray Corporation had nearly been crushed by the pressure from the Brooker side.
They hadn''t gone under, but they were hanging by a thread.
Brendan, Brielle, and Keh all sat in silence. The kind of silence that feels like it''s pressing down on your
chest.
ine, on the other hand, let out a low, coldugh.
"This is what happens," she said. "This is karma."
She''d seen iting ever since she woke up and watched Keh blindly
defend Willow, not even stopping to ask questions.
If fate hadn''t twisted the way it did-if Lauren hadn''t been saved by pure ident-
Gray Corporation would''ve crashed and burned just like the Bets.
The only reason her parents and brother had been able to walk back into this house unharmed was because Lauren had spared them-for her.
And the truth was... if anyone else had heard the same ugly secrets, they would''ve made the same choice
Lauren did.
ine wasn''t innocent either.
Before she saw Willow for who she really was, she''d sided with her. Hurt Lauren too. Just like Keh.
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"Where are you headed?"
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ine''s eyes hardened and said, "To the prison. Everyone else knows what really happened-but Elliot doesn''t. He was one of the people who helped frame Lauren, and I''m not about to let him keep living like his hands are clean."
With that, she spun her wheelchair around and started for the door without another word.
She didn''t need permission.
She was going-no matter what.
Hoverdale Psychiatric Hospital.
Alice thrashed wildly, screaming as the orderlies struggled to hold her down.
"I''m not sick! Let me out! I don''t belong here!"
It took two of them just to restrain her while another fastened the thick straps
across her arms and legs, securing her to the hospital bed.
Her eyes were wide with fear, her voice cracking as she shouted, "You can''t do this! Do you have any idea who I am? I''m....."
But she stopped.
Because she didn''t even know what to say anymore.
Before David, she''d been the golden girl-heiress of Pierce Corporation. People in
Hoverdale used to whisper her name with respect.
Then she became his wife.
And now?
Her father was gone.
David had been lying to her the entire time.
She didn''t even want the title of Mrs. Bet anymore. It meant nothing.
Her son was in prison. Her daughter loathed her.
There was no one left to protect her. No name left to cling to.
And in that moment, tied to a hospital bed in a ce that smelled like bleach and despair-Alice felt it.
That bone-deep, soul-crushing helplessness.
For the first time in her life, she had no power. No way out.
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crazy."
But the doctor didn''t even look up.
"Everyone says that when they get here. If you were line, you wouldn''t be here in
the first ce."
"I''m not sick," Alice insisted, clinging to the words like they were herst hope.
"I''m not sick. I''m not sick."
But no one believed her.
"Rx," the doctor said tly. "You''ll be sick soon enough"
Then came the sting of a needle in her arm.
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As the drug entered her bloodstream, her head began to spin. Her body went
limp. Her thoughts scattered like leaves in the wind.
All she could feel was hopelessness.
This was it. This was the same kind of silence Lauren must have faced-
screaming for someone to believe her, to hear her, and being met with nothing but judgment.
Was she this terrified too? This broken?
Just before everything went dark, a single tear slipped down Alice''s cheek.
A tear born not of fear-but of guilt.
Because now... she finally understood.
Alice sat in her own regret, reying every cold word, every cruel moment she''d thrown at Lauren.
It ate away at her.
And yet, even with that regret, she still couldn''t help thinking Lauren''s decision to
lock her in a psychiatric hospital felt too harsh.
But when she really thought about it-Lauren had gone easy on her.
She could''ve been far more brutal.
If Lauren had wanted, she could''ve left Alice to suffer the same nightmare as
Willow.
And that would''ve been true hell.
Instead, she sent Alice here.
It was mercy, in its own twisted way.
Willow had tried to escape. More than once.
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Then they locked her in a pen like an animal,
From that day on, she wasn''t a person anymore,
She was just something they used. A toy for their rage. A living punishment.
She stopped fighting.
Because there was no fight left.
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