Losing four children had been a devastating blow.
Lynn had been a coddled princess, never experiencing the darker side of life. Then, not long after her marriage, she lost both her parents in a car accident, leaving her an orphan.
Jesse had given her a warm home, and she had slowly emerged from the grief of her parents' deaths. But the four miscarriages shattered her body and spirit.
It was then that she discovered Jesse's affair, which became the final straw that broke her. Losing Jesse meant she truly had nothing left. Finding the four boys whose birthdays matched her lost children's due dates was like a ray of light re-entering her life.
She felt alive again. By day, she would indulge at the clubs, satisfying her physical and spiritual needs. By night, she would return home and, like a mother, review what the boys had learned that day.
As for why she drugged Nolan, Lynn had an answer for that too.
Nolan was a virgin, his birthday was the same as Jesse's, they shared the same blood type, and his personality—that of a smooth talker—reminded her of a young Jesse.
In Nolan, she saw the Jesse she had first known. Lynn revealed that when she started dating Jesse, he had already been with two other girlfriends, both of whom he had lived with.
She couldn't quite explain whether her actions towards Nolan were out of revenge or nostalgia.
Because the suspects confessed quickly, the trial concluded swiftly. Although the worst-case scenario had been avoided, the crime was serious, and all three were sentenced to four years in prison.
On the night of the verdict, Lynn committed suicide.
When the news broke, everyone from the Holt family to the Graces' Chat group was stunned. Lynn had reportedly killed herself by running into a wall in her cell. Her determination to die was absolute; by the time the doctor arrived, she was already gone. The guards found two words written in blood on the floor: "Finally free."


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