Tyler stood up, a victorious, predatory grin spreading across his face. He signaled to the back of the courtroom. Two burly orderlies in white scrubs stepped through the doors, carrying heavy canvas restraints.
“Take her,” Tyler ordered them.
Emma screamed, backing into the corner of the room. I stepped in front of her, balling my fists, ready to fight them bare-handed, knowing it was hopeless. We were legally buried alive.
Judge Carter raised his wooden gavel to finalize the order. “Court is ad—”
Before the gavel could strike the sounding block, a sound like a bomb detonating shook the walls.
The heavy oak doors of the courtroom didn’t just swing open; they were violently violently kicked off their brass hinges.
The aftermath of the trial was not merely a legal victory; it was a swift, brutal, and entirely surgical decimation of everything the Henderson family mistakenly thought they owned.