Chapter 10 - THE POLICE INTERVENTION
While I was recovering, the police arrived at the hospital, but not for me. Adrian had called them from the car, and they had arrived at the Brier Glen Hotel to arrest my mother. She was still wearing her wedding finery when they put the handcuffs on her, her face reflecting the same shock she’d had when Adrian carried me out.
The security footage from the storage room—the one I had begged into—had been handed over to the officers by the manager. It was irrefutable evidence of kidnapping, endangerment, and physical assault. The wedding party was still happening, but the mother of the bride was being led out the back door in shackles.
