Chapter 8
James rushed to Ironmoor Penitentiary. The psychic was cowering in a corner, covered in wounds. Rage boiled in James’s chest. “I’ll count to three. If you don’t talk, I’ll cut out your tongue myself.”
The man was already broken. He kowtowed frantically. “It was Miss Vicky. She threatened my family. She told me to
say Mrs. Harrington’s heart’s blood would cure her. I had no choice. If I didn’t do what she said, they would have killed
my family.”
James grabbed a long knife and severed the man’s remaining hand. “Bring Vicky here.”
She knew the moment she stepped into the prison, smelling the blood, that it was over.
James kicked her to the ground. “You sick bitch. I let you get away with murdering my children, and that still wasn’t
enough for you? Why couldn’t you just leave Evelyn alone? She was your sister. The woman whose life you stole for
twenty years. When did you turn into this?”
The kick made Vicky cough up blood. She laughed bitterly and wiped her mouth. “I’m the sick one? This is on you,
James. She tried to take my parents. She tried to take my husband. I hated her.”
first place.
James’s voice was hoarse. “If you hadn’t been switched at birth, none of this would have been yours in the
Vicky laughed out loud. “You’re such a hypocrite. You promised you’d love me no matter who I really was. You promised the Sinclair family would always be mine. You promised you’d love me even if I couldnt have kids. And I
believed you. Every word.”
“But then you fell for the one person trying to take everything from me. Every time you touched her, every time you got her pregnant, every time you took care of her, I wanted her dead!”
“You broke your promise. I just got rid of what was threatening what belonged to me. How is that wrong?”
I killed those children, yes. And even if I was wrong, you’re just as guilty. Everything that happened to them.
everything that happened to that bitch Evelyn, you let it happen. You enabled it.”
James slapped her so hard her head snapped to the side. “You’re insane.”
He was breathing hard. “Lock the whole Sinclair family in Ironmoor.”
A week later, the military court convened Vicky was sentenced to death for the murders of Evelyn and the children.
Until her execution, she was required to crawl from her cell to St. Clare’s Chapel every day to pray for Evelyn’s soul.
The Sinclair family’s assets were seized, and her parents were sentenced to forty years in prison. In a single night.
the Sinclair name crumbled.
Chapter 8

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