Alexander's threat echoed in Blake's mind. "I've planted evidence that Emma helped me. She'll go to prison too."Blake had Victoria's team investigate immediately. Within hours, they discovered what Alexander had prepared. Insurance. Leverage. A final weapon designed to destroy Blake's family even if Alexander went down.Fabricated evidence against Emma Sterling. Comprehensive. Professional. Devastating. The kind of evidence that ruined lives and sent innocent people to prison for decades. The kind prosecutors dreamed of finding. The kind defense attorneys had nightmares about.Emails between Emma and Alexander. Hundreds of them. Dating back two years. Conversations showing Emma "conspiring" with Alexander from the beginning. Planning Blake's downfall in explicit detail. Discussing strategies for manipulating the family vote. Coordinating Blake's imprisonment. Celebrating his conviction. Emma appearing complicit in everything. Every terrible thing Alexander had done.The emails were s

Alexander's threat echoed in Blake's mind. "I've planted evidence that Emma helped me. She'll go to prison too."Blake had Victoria's team investigate immediately. Within hours, they discovered what Alexander had prepared. Insurance. Leverage. A final weapon designed to destroy Blake's family even if Alexander went down.Fabricated evidence against Emma Sterling. Comprehensive. Professional. Devastating. The kind of evidence that ruined lives and sent innocent people to prison for decades. The kind prosecutors dreamed of finding. The kind defense attorneys had nightmares about.Emails between Emma and Alexander. Hundreds of them. Dating back two years. Conversations showing Emma "conspiring" with Alexander from the beginning. Planning Blake's downfall in explicit detail. Discussing strategies for manipulating the family vote. Coordinating Blake's imprisonment. Celebrating his conviction. Emma appearing complicit in everything. Every terrible thing Alexander had done.The emails were s

Blake Sterling began his life sentence in Scheveningen Prison's maximum security wing. Cell block D. The most secure section. Reserved for war criminals, terrorists, and men deemed too dangerous for general population. Men who would die behind these walls. Men who would never see freedom again.No hope of release. No possibility of parole. No chance of appeal. Blake's conviction was final. His confession had sealed it. His guilty verdict made it permanent. Blake Sterling would die in this prison. Would spend decades in this eight-by-ten concrete box. Would grow old and broken and forgotten.Blake accepted his fate. Knew he'd earned it. Knew his crimes deserved punishment. Knew that everything he'd done—every murder, every act of violence, every war crime—had consequences. This was his consequence. This cell. This prison. This life sentence.Blake stopped fighting. Stopped resisting. Stopped being the man who'd battled everyone and everything. That man was dead. That Blake Sterling had