He is serving fifteen years in a federal penitentiary.

Elaine was charged with obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and conspiracy. The trial aged her a decade in a month.

Daniel took the hardest blow. The judge, disgusted by the security footage of him assaulting me, handed down a sentence combining domestic battery, financial fraud, and witness intimidation.

He won’t see the outside of a cell until Elias is in high school.

Even Celeste found no sanctuary. She tried to sell her “victim” story to the tabloids right up until federal investigators froze her accounts and seized the condo Daniel had bought her with stolen pension money.

The Ashford mansion, the site of so much quiet misery, was seized and auctioned off. The company was dismantled by a federal receiver. And the union pension funds they’d stolen were fully restored to the working families who’d earned them.