Chapter 4

"Rosemary..." His lips were shaking. "Why would you hurt us like this?"

Everything I'd been holding in just burst out. "I didn't! I swear I didn't do any of this!"

But no one believed me.

The captain stood up and waved his hand. "Take her away. Charge her with major financial fraud."

Icy cold, heavier handcuffs snapped around my wrists, sending chills straight to my bones.

Overnight, I went from a petty crime suspect to the prime suspect in a 15-million-dollar criminal case.

I stared at those so-called ironclad proofs, watched the paramedics wheel my mom out on a stretcher,…