The living room softened under the low glow of the lamps, shadows moving slowly across the walls as the television continued blaring with the reporter’s voice. Eve sat stiff and unmoving beside Ryan, her fingers frozen against the fabric of the sofa. The remote lay loosely in her palm, long forgotten, her breath caught somewhere between disbelief and shock.
It was happening again.
Not to her this time, but to Kimberly.
The same bright, merciless spotlight.
The same brutal headline text.
The same investigators and flashing cameras.
The same public humiliation.
The same world Eve had been forced to walk through alone while pregnant, terrified and shamed.
Only now, the screen spelled out a different name.
KIMBERLY ASHBROOK ARRESTED FOR THEFT AND DOCUMENT FORGERY
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