Chapter 14 - The Prison Visit
Three months later.
Inside the high-security visitor hall of the state penitentiary, Miranda Sterling sat behind a thick glass partition, wearing a dull orange jumpsuit. Her face was gaunt, her hair graying, her vanity entirely stripped away.
The steel door opened, and Valerie walked in.
Dressed in a sharp, tailored white business suit, carrying a leather briefcase, Valerie sat down on the stool across from her former abuser, picking up the intercom receiver.
Miranda slowly picked up her receiver, her knuckles white.
"Have you come to mock me?" Miranda asked, her voice raspy and hollow. "To gloat about how you took my life?"
"I didn't take your life, Miranda," Valerie replied calmly through the phone. "You traded it away for greed. I just came to inform you that the Rose Cross Memorial Hospital opened today. Funded entirely by the assets seized from your offshore accounts."
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Miranda choked back a bitter sob, resting her forehead against the cold glass.
👉 How did Valerie finalize her mother's memory in the final chapter?
