Complicated Case Arises
Tom confirmed just how tangled the situation had become as we sat in his office, legal documents scattered across the desk like fragments of a story I never agreed to. “If they never formally relinquished custody, it muddies the waters,” he cautioned, meeting my eyes with a seriousness that made my stomach twist. My world felt like it was balancing on a knife’s edge. “So… they seriously have a shot?” I asked, barely believing the words. Tom nodded slowly. “We need to approach this cautiously. It’s not clear-cut—but it’s not hopeless either.”
Complicated Case Arises
Sickening Realization
I walked out of Tom’s office with a sick feeling churning in my gut, the weight of his words pressing down on me. Could Brad and Susan—the very people who left me behind—really hold that kind of power over my life now? The idea was maddening, almost surreal, as if I’d stepped into a nightmare I couldn’t wake from. How could they abandon me and still somehow reach into my future, trying to claim pieces of a life they had no part in building? Their abandonment, once a distant scar, now felt like an invisible chain tightening again—and this time, it might actually hold.
Sickening Realization
