Chapter 181

GwenI was shaking. Not from fear this time, not the kind that had lived in my bones since Raymond first pulled Emris from my arms, but something quieter, something that had been building for years and had finally found a crack to pour through.Alex's arms came around me carefully, like he thought I might break, and maybe I would have, if I hadn't let myself feel it all at once.I was tired.A kind of tiredness that had settled into the marrow of my bones somewhere between the pregnancy test I'd taken alone in a gas station bathroom and the locked bedroom door with a camera pointed at my face. Six years of running, of flinching under strange circumstances, of moving apartments twice because a shadow outside the window looked too long, too still. Six years of teaching my son to memorize the exits in any room we walked into, without ever telling him why, without ever letting him see how much it cost me to make survival look like a game.I was tired of being the only wall standing betw

Chapter 182

GwenThe screen flickered, and for a moment there was only static, grainy and gray, before the image sharpened into the room I still saw every time I closed my eyes.There I was. Sitting against the headboard in that crimson dress, my hair disheveled, my eyes glassy and unfocused in a way that made my stomach turn even now, watching myself from the outside. The angle was high, aimed down from the tripod, catching everything except Raymond, who moved in and out of frame like a shadow.The room went silent except for the low hum of the speakers.I remembered so little of it clearly, only fragments through the haze of whatever he'd put in me, but seeing it laid bare on a screen in front of a room full of strangers made my skin crawl in an entirely new way. I could see now what I hadn't been able to feel then, how my hands trembled uselessly at my sides, how my head lolled when I tried to hold it up, how my eyes kept losing focus and drifting somewhere no person in their right mind woul

Chapter 183

AlexI knew he had one more card left before he even reached for it.Men like Raymond didn't collapse in a single hit. I'd watched him operate for years before Gwen ever became a name in my mouth again, watched him bend rooms to his will with nothing but timing and the right kind of smile. A man like that doesn't walk into a courtroom without a second play already loaded, and the moment his lawyer rose with that particular calm, unhurried confidence, I felt my stomach drop even as everything in the room seemed to be turning in our favor.Beside me, Gwen's hand was trembling against mine, her breath coming too fast after the phone call recording, after her sister's name lighting up that screen like a brand."He's not done," I murmured, low enough that only she could hear. "Calm down. Let me handle what's next.""Alex–""Trust me." I squeezed her hand once, hard. "I need you to calm down. For Emris."That got through. I watched her pull the fear back down into something quieter, someth

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