(Jade)
The hearing hadn't gone the way I planned.
I'd gone into that courtroom believing Brad had enough to at least make it close. He had Gerald. He had the grocery store footage. He had me and the baby as proof that he'd moved on and built something real outside that marriage.
What I hadn't accounted for was the video.
I found out the same way Brad did. On a screen in the middle of a courtroom with a judge watching my face and a room full of people who now knew exactly what I'd been doing in the apartment Brad was paying for.
Darius.
I'd been so careful. Or I thought I had.
Now I was sitting in that same apartment with no income no rent being paid and a paternity test coming that I hadn't asked for and couldn't avoid.
I picked up my phone and called Evelyn.
She answered on the t
