Mother-in-law locks a woman in a scorching steam room at 38 weeks pregnant—then the note beside the padlock becomes evidence that could destroy the family
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Chapter 26 - The steam room is removed
Victoria sold the mansion two years and ten months after the incident.
Legal costs.
Downsizing.
Age.
Too much house.
The buyer planned to remodel the pool area.
The cedar steam room was removed.
Victoria’s realtor asked whether I wanted the punishment note’s original mounting board returned because police had released some property.
“No.”
I had the authenticated copy.
Evidence no longer needed to become décor.
Mrs. Caldwell sent Rachel a photograph of contractors carrying cedar panels toward a dumpster.
Rachel showed me.
I looked for perhaps five seconds.
Then deleted it.
The structure was not the villain.
May you like
People had been.
Wood could become wood again.
