Chapter 2: The Envelope at the Door
PART 2 ⬇️
My phone lit up at 11:47 p.m.
Jason.
Twelve missed calls.
Then a text: *"Mom is talking to her lawyer tonight.
You need to come back right now."*
I put the phone face-down on the nightstand and pulled Lily closer.
She had finally stopped shaking.
Her cheek was still swollen.
She smelled like antiseptic and the strawberry shampoo I had used to wash her hair before bed.
I was not going back.
At 6:14 a.m., someone knocked on my sister's door.
Not Jason.
Brooke.
She stood in the hallway in yesterday's clothes, her mascara tracked down both cheeks, holding a manila envelope.
"Mom wanted you to have this before you do something stupid," she said.
Inside was a letter from Diane's attorney.
I read the first paragraph twice.
Diane wasn't just threatening.
She had already filed — claiming I had @bused her at the party, that I was unstable, that Lily was unsafe in my care.
She had filed before I even reached the clinic.
My hands went still.
That meant she had planned this.
The party.
The camera angle on Brooke's livestream.
All of it.
I looked up at Brooke.
"How long has your mother been building this case against me?"
Brooke's eyes dropped to the floor.
That was my answer.
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What Emily found inside that envelope was only the beginning.
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