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When Kyle stepped out, flanked by an expensive lawyer and confidence he hadn’t earned, Madison’s body stiffened. Her breathing went shallow.
“She’s coming home with me today,” Kyle called out, too loud, too pleased with himself. “A girl needs her father.”
The guardian assigned to Madison shuffled papers, uncertainty etched into her face. Without witnesses willing to stand, without something solid enough to tip the scale, the case balanced on a razor’s edge.
Then the sound came.
Not engines, not shouting—but boots. Heavy, deliberate footsteps echoing down the hall.
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