Chapter 5

The media I'd brought swarmed them, getting right in their faces and bombarding them with sharp questions.

Richard and his crew were hauled off in cuffs before they could even blink.

I watched their backs as they struggled, being dragged away, and finally let out a heavy breath of relief.

The past six years of turmoil were, at last, mostly resolved.

Exhausted from days of stress, I crashed at home and slept like the dead. When I finally woke up, I booked a flight out of the country.

My best friend, Nicole Grant, invited me to come stay with her…