Damien's POV
The guardianship filing hit the press at four.
I watched it happen in real time from my office screens. One outlet first, then three, then twelve, the story spreading the way bad stories always did, fast and confident and carrying just enough truth to make the lie around it stick.
The headline most of them used was some version of the same thing.
Black brother's reckless behavior raises family concern. New woman at the center of the BCT crisis.
New woman. Like she had manufactured herself and inserted herself into my life for sport.
I closed the screens and called Elijah.
"Counter is filed," he said before I could speak. "Judge Harmon is reviewing. We should have a response by morning."
"What's our position?"
"That the filing is retaliatory, baseless, and transparentl
