“Take your brat and go to hell,” my husband hissed at my 7-year-old during our 10 AM divorce hearing. “The ruling is finalized. He gets everything,” his lawyer smirked.

Voss went rigid.

Daniel looked at me with raw hatred.

I knew that look. I had seen it the night he told me I would leave with nothing—the night he stood over me while Noah slept upstairs and said, “I own the judges, the banks, the lawyers, and the story.”

He had owned many things.

But never me.

Judge Marlowe looked from Ruiz to me. “Mrs. Hale?”

I folded my hands.