Chapter 12 - The Eviction and the Freeze of Assets
By Wednesday morning, the full legal hammer fell upon Brandon Miller.
Judge Katherine Sullivan of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas reviewed the overwhelming mountain of evidence: the neighbor’s video footage, the Southwest Airlines paper trail, the refrigerator note, the medical reports from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and Brenda’s sworn testimony.
The judge set Brandon’s bail at $1.5 million with a strict requirement of cash-only bond and an electronic ankle monitor upon release.
Furthermore, Judge Sullivan granted my emergency petition for exclusive occupancy of the marital residence, an immediate emergency freeze on all joint banking accounts, and an emergency commercial lien against Brandon’s equity shares at Apex Logistics.
At 2:00 PM, I arrived at our home accompanied by two sheriff’s deputies and a commercial locksmith.
Within twenty minutes, every lock on the front door, back patio, garage, and basement had been drilled out and replaced with heavy-duty biometric deadbolts.
I took four large black contractor trash bags and went into the master bedroom.
I stripped Brandon’s expensive suits from the cedar closet, his Italian shoes, his golf clubs, his watch collection, and his luxury electronics, packing every single trace of his existence into the bags.
I carried the bags out to the curb and placed them squarely on the asphalt beside the trash bins.
On top of the bags, I taped a single sheet of paper:
PROPERTY OF DEFENDANT BRANDON MILLER — COLLECT VIA LEGAL COUNSEL ONLY.
As I stood on the porch looking at the empty driveway, Liam walked out from the living room, holding a warm mug of hot cocoa and wearing his favorite dinosaur slippers.
He looked at the empty closet through the open door, then up at me.
“Is he ever coming back, Mom?” Liam asked softly.
May you like
I knelt down, wrapped my arms around his small shoulders, and kissed his forehead.
“Never, baby,” I whispered. “He will never step foot inside this house again.”
