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Chapter 20 - The Broken Glass

Hospital security returned the evidence photographs after the criminal case concluded.

Amelia saw the broken wine glass.

Red spill.

Her white dress.

She felt sick.

Graham asked:

“Do you want them destroyed?”

“They’re records.”

“Copies can be retained legally where needed.”

“I mean emotionally.”

She thought.

“No.”

He looked surprised.

“I don't want the photograph.”

“What then?”

“I want to remember that it was staged.”

For months Amelia saw the red spill in dreams as proof something terrible had happened to her.

Now she reframed it.

The wine was false evidence.

A story Celeste tried to build.

The camera dismantled it.

Truth had survived staging.

May you like

That mattered.

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