Chapter 12 - The Trial The trial lasted weeks.
Margaret's attorneys attacked Daniel.
His grief.
His anger.
The slap.
Daniel admitted everything.
“Yes. I hit my mother.”
“Would you describe yourself as violent?”
Daniel looked at the jury.
“No.”
“Then why did you strike her?”
“I made a terrible decision in a terrible moment.”
He paused.
“But that mistake does not erase what she did to my son.”
The prosecution played the video.
Margaret's voice filled the courtroom.
“You weren't supposed to exist.”
Then:
“A bastard like you doesn't belong here.”
The jury watched.
No one looked at Margaret.
Then came the DNA report.
The financial records.
The forged emails.
Claire's letter.
Henry's recording.
Victor's testimony.
The pieces formed one brutal picture.
Margaret had not lost control.
She had built a system.
And the jury convicted her.
Guilty.
Guilty.
Guilty.
And finally:
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Guilty of harming Noah.
Daniel never turned around.
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