“It’s all sealed, Loretta,” she said, and handed me a certified court decree.

“The appellate court denied his last motion to challenge the trust.

Every dollar of the insurance, and everything they recovered from his seized accounts, is locked into Veronica’s trust now — for her education, her living, her future.

It is beyond his reach for good.”

I traced my thumb over the gold state seal pressed into the paper.

“And Damon?”

“Transferred to a maximum-security facility last week,” Naomi said.

“With the charges he was convicted of — premeditated murder, evidence tampering, all of it — he is barred from ever filing for parole.