She was thr0wn out by his family—only for them to realize too late that the house was hers all along.

for the hem of my shirt, right where the fabric met my left shoulder.

“Permission to show the court,” I said quietly.

Judge Keane nodded once. “Proceed.”

I lifted the fabric just enough to reveal the raised, pale scar etched across my shoulder — a jagged wound from shrapnel during a firefight in Afghanistan eight years ago.

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