Emmett looked at her with a bitter smirk, loud enough for the front rows. “Look at her, parading around. My daughter has always been desperate for attention.”

Rosalie set Lorelei’s coded ledger on the table. “No, Father. For years you needed everyone to look away, so no one would see what you were doing.”

Emmett tried to discredit her with old medical records, insisting she’d suffered paranoid episodes since her teens and that he was only a protective father.

Manuel answered with the invoices: Dr. Callaway had taken a cash bonus every time he signed a forced-isolation order, and the diagnoses were copied word for word, including dates when Rosalie hadn’t even been in the state.

Naomi testified about the poisoned hot chocolate, backed by independent toxicology.

The missing guard, in custody, admitted Wesley had bribed him to bolt the archive door during the fire.