Chapter 7 - IN COURT
The preliminary hearing lasted two days. Brenda tried to claim I’d manipulated her, that I’d forged my own signatures, that I’d set them up from the start. Connor tried to say his mother had pressured him, that he’d been scared to say no.
But the evidence was ironclad: the metadata on the documents showing when they’d been altered, the bank logs, the recorded phone calls, the security footage of them going to the notary’s office without me.
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When I took the stand, I spoke calmly, without anger. “I didn’t want to believe it at first,” I told the judge. “I thought maybe I’d made a mistake. But you can’t mistake someone kicking your chair to make you fall. And you can’t mistake someone stealing everything you have because they think you’re too weak to stop them.”
The judge ordered them to stand trial on all charges. Bail was denied.
