The lawsuit dragged on for three months.
Carter hired the most expensive defense team in the city, attempting to have the agreement declared void on the grounds that it had been "signed under duress" and therefore carried no legal standing.
But my father had already accounted for that. On the day the agreement was signed, my father had recorded the entire process on video.
In the footage, Carter smiled at my father and said, "Mr. Shaw, don't worry. I will never shortchange Sienna."
He picked up the pen himself. He signed his name himself. He pressed his fingerprint onto the document himself. No one forced him.
In court, his lawyer watched the recording and fell silent on the spot.
Carter sat in the defendant's seat, his back slowly collapsing into itself. He turned to look at me.
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