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.
For several months after that afternoon, Robin spent his quiet evenings blaming himself for being so blind.
One night, I found him sitting alone in the garden where his father used to read every weekend.
