129. Alicia Gold's sentence.

{Three months Later}

It's finally the day. I'm sitting here in court, with a smile on my face as I listen to the symphonic words coming from the lips of the judge.

I can't help but register every expression that Alicia makes. From being flustered, to being hopeful, to being straight out booming with rage.

I didn't know watching someone get lawfully punished for their crimes could feel so good.

When I think back to the life I led before meeting Duke, the life I had gotten accustomed to living… A life where Alicia was the villain who always won, the villain who I could never defeat, the villain who I had given up on defeating.

When I think back to that life, I see how pitiful and gullible I had been for so long.

From the time we were little children, when my parents died and I moved in with them up until high school, even going on to college and marriage, Alicia always had the power.