Chapter 7 - The Final Betrayal
News of Marcus’s arrest at the Seattle hospital made its way back to Chloe. She reached her breaking point.
Through mutual friends, I learned the full, pathetic story. Chloe had taken her newborn son to the county jail to visit Marcus before his transfer to federal prison. She had expected a tearful goodbye, a promise that he would be a better man when he got out.
Instead, Marcus looked at her through the glass and laughed.
“You think I actually loved you?” he told her. “You were just a fun distraction, Chloe. You were supposed to be my ticket to Elena’s money once the kid died. You’re nothing but a naive idiot.”
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He hung up the phone and walked back to his cell, leaving Chloe sobbing in the visitor’s lobby, holding a baby she couldn't afford, completely utterly alone. She had traded her family, her sister, and her dignity for a man who viewed her as collateral damage.
I felt a brief, fleeting moment of pity. And then I let it go. She had laughed while Lily was dying. Karma had simply balanced the scales.
