Chapter 8 - The Betrayal
There is no honor among thieves.
When they were brought into the interrogation rooms, Harrison and the District Attorney offered Clara a deal. If she testified that Beatrice was the mastermind behind the financial fraud and the abuse of Emily, they would reduce her sentence.
Clara didn't even hesitate.
Within ten minutes, she threw our mother entirely under the bus. She claimed Beatrice forced her to participate, that Beatrice was the one who locked the doors, that Beatrice forged the signatures. She cried crocodile tears, playing the victim.
But Beatrice was sitting in the room next door, and when the detectives told her what Clara had said, the older woman snapped.
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Beatrice retaliated by handing over a hidden ledger detailing how Clara had actively stolen extra money from the home equity loan to pay off a secret gambling debt.
They destroyed each other. They handed the prosecution every single piece of evidence needed to secure maximum sentences, purely out of spite for one another. It was poetic justice in its purest form.
