The full custody hearing was scheduled for a Thursday in early October, exactly thirty-nine days after Tristan had taken Theo home. Sophia showed up in the same blazer she’d worn for the temporary order, hair pinned back tight, hands steady only because Jamie had gripped them in the hallway outside the courtroom and told her to breathe. Inside, the room smelled like old wood and fresh lies. Tristan’s team had turned the case into a master class in quiet destruction. They didn’t need DNA. They had bank records, school attendance logs, neighbor statements, and a parade of “character witnesses” who all happened to be on the Musk payroll in one way or another. The judge—Honorable Marcus Hale, sixty-three, golfing buddy of Tristan’s father for twenty years—listened with the polite detachment of a man who already knew how the day would end. Sophia’s lawyer, a tired public defender who’d taken the case pro bono, did everything right on paper. She presented Sophia’s steady emplo
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