Sophia's Point of View Maya completes her confession video and shuts the laptop. We remain in the motel room looking at one another, aware that we have just declared war on those who have consistently defeated us at every opportunity. Twenty-two hours remain until Victoria unveils the insurance documents. Twenty-two hours remain before the public demise of fifteen women's lives. "I must speak with him," I declared unexpectedly. "Whom do you see?" Alexandra inquires. "Nick." "I must visit him in prison." Maya gazes at me as if I've gone crazy. "Why would you wish to meet the person who's ruining our existence?" "Since all of this is not reasonable." I get up and begin to walk back and forth. "Nicholas is not truthful and he can be deceitful, indeed." Yet, all that has happened in the

