My Husband Left Me Dying for Her. I Made Him Regret It novel · Chapter 28 of 32
Chapter 28: Arianna's Plea
I stood on my father's stoop in my robe and read every one of the forty pages.
Ottavia waited in the cold the whole time and didn't once tell me to hurry.
The restaurants. The linen plant. The concrete. Into a trust for the people who worked there, under a monitor, forever.
No custody petition anywhere in it. A second, thinner envelope inside said WITHDRAWN.
"How?" I said.
"I'm his mother." She pulled on her gloves. "I visited every day for three days. I don't think he enjoyed it."
Three months went by in a blur of paperwork I didn't have to sneak.
In January the laughing soldier took a deal.
He told the agents everything. Twenty thousand dollars from Arianna, a pair of cutters, my father's driveway at two in the morning.
In February Arianna pleaded guilty to bribery, wire fraud and tampering with a witness.
The witness was me.
On the first Friday in April, I sat in the second row of a federal courtroom in lower Manhattan for her sentencing.
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