“No,” I replied firmly. “I simply watched how you behaved when you believed that kindness offered no reward and cruelty carried no cost.”
The police officer stepped forward and asked Tabitha to turn around slowly.
She loudly resisted, threatened to launch massive lawsuits, and frantically demanded that Robin step in to defend her. He did not move a single inch. When the cold metal handcuffs closed around her wrists, she turned and stared at him with wide, frantic eyes.
“You will come back to me,” she insisted fiercely. “You always forgive people no matter what they do.”
His voice broke with emotion, but his stance remained absolutely firm. “Forgiveness does not require giving you continued access to my life.”
The officers firmly escorted her out the heavy front doors.
All of the grand wedding contracts were immediately voided under standard fraud protection clauses. Her brother’s fake agency was raided by authorities the following morning, and both siblings were formally charged with multiple counts of fraud. Investigators eventually uncovered two earlier criminal schemes involving fabricated debts and stolen identity documents that Tabitha had orchestrated in another state. Faced with overwhelming evidence, she accepted a strict plea agreement that involved significant prison time, heavy financial restitution, and a permanent fraud judgment on her record, while her brother lost his business completely and received a separate prison sentence.
