Victoria: Get your hands off me! Do you know who my lawyers are?! I am Victoria Sterling!
Officer Davis: You have the right to remain silent, Mrs. Sterling. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
The metal handcuffs clicked loudly around Victoria's wrists. Two state troopers yanked her up from the marble floor, forcing her arms behind her back as she thrashed against them[cite: 1].
Victoria: Grant! Tell them to stop! You can't let them take me to jail in front of the gala guests downstairs!
Grant: I want every single guest downstairs to see you led away in chains, Victoria.
Officer 2: Watch your head, ma'am. Move your feet.
Victoria was dragged out of the luxury bathroom, her green dress torn, her face red and smeared with running mascara[cite: 1]. Her screams of rage echoed down the long grand hallway as the police led her toward the central staircase.
Down in the main foyer, dozens of Dallas's wealthiest elite stopped talking as the troopers marched Victoria through the crowd. Murmurs and gasps broke out everywhere.
Guest 1: Is that Victoria?! What did she do?!
Guest 2: Look at her hands... she's in handcuffs!
Guest 3: I heard she tried to hurt little Lily upstairs!
Two paramedics rushed up the stairs with a medical bag, quickly reaching the bathroom where Sarah was still holding Lily.
Paramedic: Let's take a look at that burn, sweetheart. You were very brave today.
Sarah: The iron was on full heat, doctor[cite: 1]. The skin on her scalp is severely blistered.
Paramedic: We'll apply a sterile burn dressing and transport her to Children's Health Dallas for specialized treatment. She's going to be okay, but she needs antibiotic ointment right away.
Grant knelt down beside the stretcher as the paramedics gently lifted Lily onto the mobile bed.
Grant: I'm coming with you in the ambulance, baby. Daddy is never going to leave your side again.
Lily: *Reaching out her hand* Can Sarah come too?
Grant: Of course she can. Sarah is family now.
Sarah wiped a tear from her eye, nodding as she squeezed Lily's small hand. They walked out of the mansion together, passing the framed American flag artwork in the hall as the flashing red and blue lights of five police cruisers illuminated the night sky[cite: 1].