“Hey, you two!” he calls out before hugging us both. “Got some great news.”
“Only visiting over something that could be a phone call?” Grace teases.
“It’s much better in person.”
Inside, we settle around the kitchen table, Grace and I on one side, Devon on the other. He’s grinning from ear to ear.
“This seems like really great news,” Grace breathes. “We could use that.”
“Let’s cut to it,” Devon says, setting a thick folder on the table but not opening it. “Andrew’s not getting out. He’s been charged with multiple counts of stalking.”
“Multiple counts?” I ask.
“Some of his other former clients have been reaching out to me, remember?” Grace says as she reaches over to touch my hand.
“When it came to light that he was my stalker, he had threatened a lot of them with death if they came forward.”
Devon nods.
“Yup, they’ve all come forward after your case made the news.
Women and a few men who said they were too scared to speak out before.
Andrew was threatening them, making their lives hell. But now, they’re telling their stories.”
“That is horrible, but it’s also good news.
Like, I don’t want to wish these things on anyone, but this is great for us.”
“It really is,” Devon nods.
He leans back, rubbing a hand over his face.
“It’s bad. He’s looking at serious time for stalking alone.
But it doesn’t stop there.”
I clear my throat. “What are all the charges?”
He lifts a brow at me.
“Home invasion. Multiple counts of breaking restraining orders.
There’s even one charge for keeping someone from calling 9-1-1.
He’s left a trail of destruction.
The courts were lenient the first time, sent him to a mental facility thinking he could be fixed, but as we know, he walked out and went right back to terrorizing people.”
“Do you think he’ll argue mental instability again?” I ask, leaning forward, elbows on the table.
“Can he walk away if they deem him unwell?”
“Not this time,” Devon replies.
“He’s being charged with so much that even a plea of insanity wouldn’t get him out of this.
And given the damage he’s done—including attempting to kill more than one of his victims?—