PART 3 Nobody answered. I continued reading. “Fourteen years ago, my husband and I purchased this property together. After his death, I became its sole legal owner. This document confirms my wishes regarding the property and my estate.” Cullen shook his head. “Mom, stop. We already discussed this.” “No, Cullen. We never discussed anything. You…

PART 3 She didn’t even look at him. “No.” It was the same word I had spoken to my father moments earlier. But unlike me, Victoria wasn’t standing in front of a man who believed he owned her. She had evidence. And she was finally ready to use it. “My name is Victoria Hayes,” she…

PART 3 I looked toward Lucy’s bed. She lay beneath a white hospital blanket, her small chest rising and falling with the help of oxygen. Captain Floppy rested beside her hand. Even through the fever, she kept her fingers wrapped around one of the rabbit’s worn paws. A nurse adjusted the monitor while the attending…

PART 3 Nobody answered. I continued reading. “Fourteen years ago, my husband and I purchased this property together. After his death, I became its sole legal owner. This document confirms my wishes regarding the property and my estate.” Cullen shook his head. “Mom, stop. We already discussed this.” “No, Cullen. We never discussed anything. You…

PART 3 She didn’t even look at him. “No.” It was the same word I had spoken to my father moments earlier. But unlike me, Victoria wasn’t standing in front of a man who believed he owned her. She had evidence. And she was finally ready to use it. “My name is Victoria Hayes,” she…

PART 3 I looked toward Lucy’s bed. She lay beneath a white hospital blanket, her small chest rising and falling with the help of oxygen. Captain Floppy rested beside her hand. Even through the fever, she kept her fingers wrapped around one of the rabbit’s worn paws. A nurse adjusted the monitor while the attending…