When I was eight months pregnant, my sister-in-law attempted to take the $150,000 my husband had set aside for our unborn twins… and when I refused, she struck me directly in the stomach.

a robbery.”

Teresa stopped crying.

That sentence reached her somewhere the handcuffs had not.

Gerardo pleaded. He offered to cooperate. He said Marcela had manipulated him, that he had only wanted to help her, that he never thought anyone would be hurt.

Olivia replied without raising her voice:

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